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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a travel warning, advising pregnant women to consider postponing unimportant travel to 11 Southeast Asian countries.

The Thai Ministry of Public Health has asked people to destroy mosquito breeding grounds to prevent outbreaks of Zika, dengue and Chikungunya viruses.

The risk of infectious disease in Vietnam is still high, with cases of infection likely to increase from now to the end of the year, according to the Ministry of Health.

The Philippine Ministry of Health has confirmed three new cases of Zika virus, bringing the number of locally-transmitted Zika virus to 12 cases this year.

Singapore’s Ministry of Health (MOH) on September 23 confirmed that 16 pregnant women in the country have been infected with the Zika virus.

As many as 11,000 dengue fever cases were reported in Ho Chi Minh City as of mid-September, up 32 percent against the same period last year.

The health sector of the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa has taken measures against mosquito-borne Zika virus at international border gates.

As many as 12 new cases of Zika were reported in Singapore last weekend, bringing the total number to 381 since the start of the outbreak on August 27, according to the National Environment Agency (NE

HCM City’s health authorities have implemented a number of measures to control Zika virus following a German woman, who lives in District 2, was diagnosed with the virus while traveling in Japan.

Health ministers from ASEAN member states convened a teleconference on September 19 seeking ways to combat Zika virus, which has hit many parts of Southeast Asia.

Malaysia’s Institute for Medical Research ( IMR ) has been carrying out tests to determine the type of Zika virus on two new patients.

Taiwan has informed Vietnam about a Taiwanese citizen who was diagnosed with Zika infection after returning from Vietnam.

Hanoi’s Health Department and authorities of the outlying district of Hoai Duc jointly launched a campaign against dengue and Zika virus disease on September 16.

The Zika infection case discovered in Japan on September 12 is not Vietnamese, confirmed the Health Ministry’s Department of Preventive Medicine on September 15.

Thailand’s Department of Disease Control (DDC) on September 14 instructed all 12 Emergency Operation Centres to increase their alert level to level two amidst the spread of Zika virus epidemic.

Malaysia has confirmed two other cases inflected with Zika virus, raising the total number of infections in the country to six, the Health Ministry reported on September 13.

A Vietnamese woman, 40, was diagnosed with Zika virus while travelling in Japan, according to the General Department of Preventive Medicine under the Vietnamese Ministry of Health.

The Thai Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) on September 13 reported that around 200 Zika virus cases have been recorded since January, 2016, making Thailand one of the countries with the highest rate.

Singapore discovered 14 new cases of Zika virus as of September 10, bringing the total number of locally transmitted cases of the virus to 318.

The Zika virus behind an outbreak in Singapore was likely evolved from a strain already circulating in Southeast Asia in the 1960s, Singapore’s Ministry of Health said on September 8.