DAK warns of Zika virus threat in Kashmir

Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) Saturday warned of possible Zika virus threat in Kashmir as the virus is believed to have crossed over to the common mosquito. President DAK Dr Nisar ul Hassan in a statement said that up until now it was thought that aedes aegypti mosquito, which is confined to tropics, was solely spreading the virus, but scientists in Brazil believe that the virus is being carried and transmitted by the much more common culex mosquito. “They say they are as little as a month away from confirming that…

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