ZIKA VIRUS NO MORE THREAT IN AHMEDABAD 

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Gujarat Health Minister requests for calm after Zika detection in Ahmedabad.He said that the Centre and the state government are fully ready to deal with any kind of epidemic, while adding that the reported cases of Zika have also been cured and no new case has cropped up.The people who were diagnosed of the virus are now fit and have been cured. And no new case of Zika has been found in Gujarat, so I request all to not panic," he added.Asserting that India has a strong surveillance system to detect and contain new Zika virus infection, the Union Health Ministry yesterday requested the nation to remain calm.

           India's first three cases of the Zika virus were reported between February 2016 and January 2017 in Ahmedabad, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed in its disease outbreak bulletin released on Friday. It said the Centre confirmed the three cases, in two pregnant women and in an elderly man, on May 15, 2017.All cases were reported from Bapunagar here and the patients tested positive at the Gujarat government-run BJ Medical College (BJMC). Union minister of state for health Anupriya Patel, in a written reply in the Lok Sabha in March this year, had confirmed one Zika case in Ahmedabad.
       However, the detection and confirmation of Zika cases wasn't made public by the state government, apparently because it came in the run-up to the Vibrant Gujarat Global Investment Summit.Gujarat health commissioner J P Gupta told  "We confirm that Zika virus has random presence in Ahmedabad. We cannot say if the virus was brought from outside or was indigenous."He added that the children of both the pregnant women were born without symptoms like microcephaly (abnormal shrinking of head) associated with Zika, which had an outbreak in Brazil in early 2015. In February 2016, the WHO declared the outbreak as "public health emergency of international concern".

The WHO bulletin said the first case was reported during a disease surveillance activity in Ahmedabad between February 10 and 16 last year. A 64-year old man with mild fever over eight days was detected with Zika virus. The second case was detected at BJMC where a 34-year-old woman delivered a baby on November 9 last year.
"During her hospital stay, she developed a low grade fever after the delivery. Her sample was sent to the laboratory at BJMC for dengue testing and found to be positive for Zika virus," said the bulletin. The sample was re-confirmed later as Zika virus-positive by the National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune. The WHO stated that there was no history of fever during pregnancy and no history of travel for the past three months in the case.