Two more Zika virus cases detected in Chiang Mai
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The northern province of Chiang Mai's San Sai district found two more Zika virus patients Friday, bringing the number of infected people found there to nine.
Chiang Mai public health office deputy chief Dr Waranyu Jamnongprasartporn said the two new cases were a Maejo University student living in within the campus and an elderly person in Tambon Nong Han, both of whom were diagnosed for Zika virus on Thursday.
Officials therefore were dispatched to spray mosquitocide and destroy the breeding grounds of Zika-carrier Aedes aegypti mosquitoes at both areas, he said, adding that the control measures would be similar to operations against dengue fever.
