A fresh case of contagion by
the Zika virus has been found in a person just back from Brazil,
Rome medical sources said Friday, raising the total of cases in
Italy to nine. Earlier a fourth case was found in Veneto. The
patient, who had returned from a trip to the Dominican Republic,
was treated in a Venice hospital and is well, regional health
councillor Luca Colletto said. Previously Colletto said the
other three cases were in Treviso, Padua and Vicenza and all
concerned people who had returned from trips to countries where
the virus is most widespread, in South America and the
Caribbean. "There is no cause for alarm because the Zika virus
has been monitored in Veneto since 2010, along with Chijkungunya
and Dengue, both in humans and the mosquitoes which are its
vectors so that, if it presents, we are able to treat it
effectively," Colletto said. The World Health Organisation
declared Zika an emergency February 1 and on Friday the United
Nations said contraception and abortion services should be
boosted in affected countries.
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