In Chikkaballapur, Karnataka, one individual tested positive for the Zika virus, and officials throughout the state are on high alert.
Health officials are on high alert after a confirmed Zika virus case was discovered in the Chikkaballapur district of Karnataka. After an outbreak in Kerala, the virus was discovered in mosquitoes in the Chikkaballapur area in August. This discovery raised fears about the virus’s possible spread to Karnataka.
Six of the 100 samples that were gathered around the state were from Chikkaballapur, according to SS Mahesh, the District Health Officer (DHO) for Chikkaballapur. One of them has been verified to be positive for the virus, while the other five tested negative.”
According to Mahesh, blood samples from seven individuals experiencing fever symptoms and thirty pregnant women have been sent for testing; the results are still pending.
He asked people to come forward and give blood samples if they had high temperatures for three days in a row. The DHO also stated that a survey has been started in the district where the infected Aedes mosquitoes were found, within a 5-kilometer radius of the hamlet. Dengue and Zika have many of the same symptoms.
