Russia confirmed the first Zika infection

The Russian health watchdog said on Monday that the country's first Zika brain atrophy was a woman who had been to the Dominican Republic.

"The virus-infected patient is currently being treated in an infectious hospital. Her condition is good," said Rospotrebnadzor, the Russian Medical Surveillance Agency.

According to Rospotrebnadzor, the woman infected with the Zika virus used to travel in the Dominican Republic. After being tested, family members of this patient did not have the clinical manifestations of the virus."Test results show that they are negative for Zika virus , " Tass said information from the medical watchdog.

Currently, the world does not yet have a specific drug as well as a preventive vaccine for Zika virus.(Artwork: Tass).

Officials have taken necessary measures, such as disinfection, on passenger aircraft that Russian citizens have moved to move back to the country. Rospotrebnadzor insists that the health of other passengers is not threatened.

Zika virus was first recorded in 1947 in Uganda's Zika forest. In January, it began to spread rapidly in Brazil, and other countries in South America and North America. Health officials say the Zika virus has entered 21 of the 55 countries in the Western Hemisphere.

Patients with viral infections often have fever, eye pain, headache, joint pain, sometimes nausea and stomach pain. Zika virus is thought to spread from person to person through an intermediate object is Aedes , the type of mosquito that transmits dengue fever.

Mothers with a virus will give birth to babies with a smaller brain than normal. The virus is also thought to be related to the crippled neurotic syndrome called Guillain-Barre in some patients.

The World Health Organization (WHO) on February 1 declared a global emergency when cases of serious birth defects suddenly increased. WHO also established a global response team in response to the spread of Zika virus.

Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Jamaica warned women not to become pregnant during the time when Zika virus is spreading rapidly. Currently, the world does not have specific drugs and vaccines to prevent Zika virus.