Zika virus in India

Ahmedabad, May 28: The Dangerous Zika virus disease has reached India with the World Health Organisation (WHO) confirming first three cases in Gujarat's Ahmedabad.

All from Bapunagar area of Ahmedabad, While the latest case is of a pregnant woman who tested positive in January this year, the first sample dates back to February last year.

"On May 15, 2017, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, reported three laboratory-confirmed cases of Zika virus disease in Bapunagar area, Ahmedabad district, Gujarat," says the WHO report dated May 26.



However, J P Gupta, Commissioner of Health, Gujarat, said all three patients were now "Zika-free", "leading normal lives" and "not under any medication".

We knew that Since Zika erupted on a large scale in mid-2015, more than 1.5 million people have been infected by the zika virus, mostly in Brazil and other countries in South America. Some 70 countries have been impacted.