Zika Confirmed Travelers In Spain Increase To 38

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Amounting to 38 diagnosed cases of Zika, including five pregnant

 

EFE

March 7, 2016

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Madrid, March 7 (EFE) .- The Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality has risen to 38 cases diagnosed in Spain of the Zika virus, all imported, among which are five pregnant, two in Catalonia, two in Madrid and one in Galicia.

According to its website the Ministry of Health, all confirmed cases so far at the National Microbiology Center of the Institute of Health Carlos III correspond to people who had traveled to affected countries, so it is imported cases.

Thus, nine of the patients are in Catalonia, thirteen in Madrid, six in Castilla and Leon, two in Aragon, two in Asturias, one in Andalusia, one in Murcia, one in Valencia, one in Navarre, one in La Rioja and one in Galicia.

Among the confirmed cases are five pregnant women, two more than last week. Two of them are in Catalonia, two in Madrid and one in Galicia.

Health recalls that before the epidemic by Zika virus in several countries of the American continent, the Ministry, in collaboration with the Institute of Health Carlos III and the autonomous communities, has established a surveillance of imported cases of illness from this virus.

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