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Zika in India: Gujarat taking preventive measures to check spread of virus

WHO had on last Friday confirmed the first case of Zika virus infection in Ahmedabad

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The United States reported its first case in February

BS Reporter Ahmedabad
In the wake of three cases of Zika virus being reported in Gujarat, the state goverment on Sunday assured the citizens by saying that the cases were old and those afflicted by the diseases were cured. It added that the state was taking preventive measures against the spread of the disease and that there have been no reports of new cases in the reagion so far. 

World Health Organisation (WHO) had on last Friday (May 26) confirmed India’s first case of Zika virus outbreak in Ahmedabad. It had reported three cases, two of them related to two preganant ladies who