Thai health ministry says do not panic over Zika virus

Thailand shouldn't worry regarding the Zika virus, its public health ministry aforementioned on weekday, simply every day once the planet Health Organization declared the virus a global emergency.

Thailand is that the worst-hit country in geographical area, with a mean of 5 cases a year since 2012, in keeping with the Ministry of Public Health.

Thailand has confirmed one case of the virus this year.

In addition, last month, Taiwan reported  one case of Zika infection during a man from Asian country once he go off a temperature scanner at Taiwan's Taoyuan International flying field.

The World Health Organization (WHO) on weekday declared the mosquito-borne Zika virus a global public health emergency because of its link to thousands of birth defects in Brazil.

"Thais shouldn't worry. Asian country has no irruption of this unwellness," the Ministry of Public Health aforementioned during a statement.

"We have asked everybody to observe and prepare measures to seem once this unwellness ... Thais shouldn't panic. largely if patients get this unwellness they recover," the ministry aforementioned.

Neighbouring Malaya and Singapore have aforementioned they're at high risk for the unfold of Zika if the virus is foreign.

The UN agency aforementioned last month the speedy unfold of Zika within the Americas was because of a scarcity of immunity among a population that had not been antecedently exposed to the virus.

Thailand's public health ministry has aforementioned there was "no technical evidence" of in-built immunity to Zika in Asian country.

According to a June 2015 article within the yankee Journal of medicine and Hygiene there are "several cases reported  in travellers strolling back from Thailand".

Seven cases of Zika infection were found between 2012 to 2014 in Thai residents, it said.

"These endemic cases, combined with previous reports in travellers, give proof that Zika is widespread throughout Asian country," the journal aforementioned.

Sill, the general public health ministry aforementioned it had been not to a fault involved.

"I raise you to own confidence in Thailand's closed-circuit television," Amnuay Gajeena, director-general of the unwellness management Department, aforementioned during a statement.

The health ministry has asked members of the general public to assist eliminate mosquitos around their homes and in their communities and has suggested those travel back from Zika-affected areas to report any symptoms.