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Good morning listeners, Welcome to the news for today. Im Rizka Amalia.

You are listen to Indonesia Health at 07.00 a.m. For the next 30 minutes, I will bring
you some actual information happening around the world.
The first news is a pregnant woman in Spain who had travelled to Colombia
has the Zika virus - in what is thought to be the first such case in Europe.
The woman, from Catalonia, was reported to be having clinical tests and was
under medical supervision but was described as being in good health. She is in her
second trimester of pregnancy and is presumed to have been infected during the trip to
Colombia. No details have been released about the condition of her unborn child. The
woman is among seven cases of Zika in Spain, said health officials, who said all of
them were in a good condition.
The mosquito-borne virus is being blamed for causing brain defects in
thousands of newborn babies. Health authorities have warned the disease could infect
up to four million people in the Americas and spread worldwide. Colombia is one of
around 30 countries and territories, mainly in South America as well as the Caribbean,
which have been affected so far. The disease was previously thought to have been
passed only by the Aedes mosquito, and not from human-to-human.
But this week came the news in Dallas that a patient had caught the virus after
having sexual contact with someone who had returned from Venezuela, where Zika is
circulating. Meanwhile, in Brazil, a person has caught the virus after having a
blood transfusion from a donor who had been infected with Zika. On Tuesday, two
cases of the virus were confirmed in Ireland, according to the country's Health
Services Executive. Both had travelled to a country affected by the virus and both
have now fully recovered. The Zika virus could spread in every European country if
the Aedes mosquito gets a foothold on the continent, the World Health Organisation
has warned.
The WHO's Europe chief Zsuzsanna Jakab said the risk of the virus spreading
around Europe would increase in spring and summer as temperatures warm up.
It is most likely to spread beyond Latin America through mosquitoes stowing away in
baggage, or else in the blood of travellers.

Source : http://news.sky.com/story/1636105/first-european-case-of-zika-in-pregnant-
woman

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