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Vietnam's HCM City intensifies Zika prevention

Xinhua, February 2, 2016 Adjust font size:

Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City is taking precautious measures to prevent Zika virus from spreading to the country, a local quarantine center said Tuesday.

Tan Son Nhat international airport in Ho Chi Minh City is measuring body temperatures of passengers as it did amid Ebola outbreaks in Africa, said the city's International Medical Quarantine Center.

The center is also spraying chemicals to wipe out mosquitoes at the airport.

Vietnam's Health Ministry has announced that the country has so far detected no cases of Zika infection, but still intensified preventive measures to prevent the virus crossing its border.

The ministry has proposed municipal and provincial authorities and preventive medicine centers nationwide conducting medical quarantine at borders, early detecting suspected cases and eliminating breeding grounds of Aedes mosquitos at local communities.

The World Health Organization has declared the rise in birth defects linked to the Zika virus outbreak a public health emergency. Zika first appeared in the Western Hemisphere in May, and the outbreak has so far spread to 25 countries and regions. Enditem