KATHMANDU: Nepal has started laboratory tests to confirm Zika virus in suspected cases at the time the prominent pandemic of Zika virus infection has terrorised the entire world.
The disease supposed to be caused by the daytime active Aedes mosquitoes has largely affected the South American countries.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) provided ‘polymerase chain reaction kits’ to Nepal to undergo lab tests against the virus, bearing in mind the risk of its outbreak in Nepal.
According to the National Public Health Laboratory Director Dr Geeta Shakya, the WHO provided 1,000 kits to Nepal.
Epidemiology and Disease Control Division Director Dr Baburam Marasini said Nepal is transit for many countries and timely precautions were needed to be taken in order to prevent possible spread of Zika virus.
Pregnant women are the most vulnerable group of the virus infection. The infected expectant mothers can give birth to infant with microcephaly and mental retardation.
The virus was first detected in a monkey of the rhesus macaque species in Uganda in 1947 and the first evidence of human infection was detected in 1952.
Brazil had seen the outbreak of the virus in 2015 and it has then spread to 24 other countries so far.
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