More Zika Cases Near Pune India

Clinical tests recently conducted at the premier National Institute of Virology in Pune, India, confirmed an elderly man had been infected with the Zika virus.

The patient is originally from Nashik and traveled to Pune on November 6, 2022. Previously, he had traveled to Surat in late October 2022.

Local media reported on December 1, 202; a seven-year-old girl was also found infected with the Zika virus in the Palghar district near Mumbai in July 2022.

As of December 4, 2022, the U.S. FDA had not approved a Zika vaccine.