During the week (30-March-2016), Queensland Health (Queensland is a State wihtin Australia) released its weekly notifiable conditions data, which list ZIKV detections as a distinct entity (looking at you [1]) and listed Vietnam as the origin of acquisition of the (I presume) case reported by the media.[2]
Notifiable conditions report summary information. Queensland Health.[2] |
Zika virus - notifications of Zika virus infection (Zika). Australian Department of Health.[3] |
From smartraveller.[6]
So we keep watching and hope that Vietnam has plenty of advice coming to it behind-the-scenes from the World Health Organization (who also have not listed it in this weeks ZIKV SitRep [7]) about how to reduce the risks of the Vietnamese community becoming infected by ZIKV.
References...
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27016009
- https://www.health.qld.gov.au/clinical-practice/guidelines-procedures/diseases-infection/surveillance/reports/notifiable/summary/default.asp
- http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/ohp-zika-notifications.htm
- http://vietnamnews.vn/society/294585/tests-finds-no-cases-of-zika-virus.html
- https://smartraveller.gov.au/bulletins/zika_virus
- http://www.thanhniennews.com/health/vietnam-raises-zika-alert-after-australian-tourist-returns-home-sick-60511.html
- http://who.int/emergencies/zika-virus/situation-report/31-march-2016/en/
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