BANGKOK: A man has contracted the Zika virus in Thailand, officials said, as a global alert intensifies over the mosquito-borne infection blamed for a surge in serious birth defects in South America.
Authorities said the 22-year-old Thai man is likely to have caught the same strain of the virus that has caused panic in countries such as Brazil and Colombia.
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