Already Zika virus alert Sign Indonesia.
JAKARTA - which this week Zika virus outbreak on the American continent has now entered the territory of Indonesia. A man in Jambi tested positive for Zika virus infection.
According to The Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology, said the 27-year-old man who lived in Jambi, Sumatra, which is positive for the virus Zika had never traveled abroad.
Initially, he was allegedly exposed to dengue fever. However, the results of a medical test declared him negative dengue fever. After further investigation, he tested positive for Zika virus infection.
"Of the 103 specimens (dengue) we examined, we found one positive (infected) Zika virus," said the center's deputy director, Herath Sudoyo, told AFP on Monday (02/01/2016).
Herath said the specimens were taken during the outbreak of dengue fever in Jambi between December 2014 and April 2015. It is not known how and when the man contracted the Zika virus. "We conclude that the virus has spread in Indonesia for a while," he said.
Indonesia's health ministry has not confirmed the report of the agency's findings about Zika virus in Jambi. The virus that has infected thousands of people in Latin America that is transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito that has been spreading dengue fever and chikungunya virus.
Zika virus symptoms is similar to chikungunya, flu-like mild fever, headaches to joint pain. However, according to experts Zika virus can affect the baby defects if pregnant women infected with the virus.
