‘Sabah folk may be born with antibodies to fight Zika’

Participants, lecturers and guests at the public forum on the Zika virus at Universiti Malaysia Sabah.

KOTA KINABALU: People in Sabah may have inborn antibodies to fight against the Zika virus since it is said to be endemic here.

An academic from Universiti Malaysia Sabah’s (UMS) Medicine and Health Sciences Faculty said the Zika virus has been present in primates and probably humans here as early as the 1960s.