Zika virus case in Kanpur goes up to eleven presently

Aedes mosquitoes carries Zika virus

Kanpur: The mosquito buzzez in the day. The place does not remain safe.

Thank God the Zika virus has not touched more than eleven patients here.

With appearance of one more fresh case,  the total cases now reach up to 11.

With one more Zika virus case recorded in Kanpur , the total infection tally in the city has reached to 11, as reported.

Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Kanpur, Dr Nepal Singh, said that pathology samples of a 42-year-old woman was collected from Shiv Katra, in  Lal Bangla area.

It was later sent to the KGMU lab in Lucknow and National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune.

Following examination of the samples it was tested positive for the virus on Monday.