New ICMR study reports silent spread of Zika virus in India - The Indian Express

6/24/2022 12:00:00 AM2 years 10 months ago
by Anuradha Mascarenhas
by Anuradha Mascarenhas
“We wanted to determine the presence of the virus from different geographical regions and hence researchers from the National Institute of Virology Pune and other ICMR institutes screened clinical samples of 1,475 patients from May-Oct 2021 and re-tested them…
A new study of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has indicated the spread of the Zika virus to several states of India and calls for an urgent need to strengthen its surveillance. Researc… [+3791 chars]
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