Guess we all saw this coming.
Myanmar has been included in a US travel warning urging pregnant women to postpone visits to 11 Southeast Asian countries due to the risk of contracting Zika.
While there have been no confirmed incidences here of the virus, which has been tied to microcephaly in babies, neighboring Thailand has had several and is probing four suspected Zika-linked microcephaly cases.
In their advisory, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention named Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Maldives, the Philippines and Vietnam, alongside Thailand and Myanmar.
There’s a difference, however, between this CDC warning and the stricter ‘travel notices’ that have been issued for the worst-hit countries, including Singapore and Brazil, Reuters reported.
The good news?
Many residents of Southeast Asia are believed to be immune to the virus, according to the CDC statement, seeing as it has been endemic here for years. That wasn’t the case in Central and South America and the Caribbean, where the mosquito-borne disease was first identified last year.
However, the virus has spread quickly in Singapore, where immunity is believed to be low.
