Thailand

Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital in Bangkok Thailand has released a partial 2016 Zika sequence which is most closely related to 2013 sequence from Thailand.

BANGKOK: Thailand is investigating four suspected cases of Zika-related microcephaly in three babies and a 36-week old unborn baby, the public health minister said on Tuesday (Sep 27), in what could be the first cases of Zika-linked microcephaly in Southeast Asia. http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/thailand-investigates-four-cases-of-suspected-zika-linked/3159820.html

Taiwan CDC releases partial sequence, ZIKV/Thailand/1601Tw, from 2016 Taiwan traveler infected in Thailand. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/KU758878

Thailand confirms first domestic case of Zika virus13 hours ago .View photo The Zika virus is transmitted by the Aedes Aegypti mosquito and cannot spread between humans (AFP Photo/Luis Robayo) Bangkok (AFP) - A man has contracted the Zika virus in Thailand, officials said Tuesday, as a global alert intensifies over the mosquito-borne infection blamed for a surge in serious birth defects in South America. Authorities said the 22-year-old Thai man is likely to have caught the same strain of the virus that has caused panic in countries such as Brazil and Colombia. The virus "was confirmed by blood tests", Air Vice Marshall Santi Srisermpoke, director of Bangkok's Bhu…