LEGAZPI CITY: One mosquito bite can spread the Zika virus in the country, the health department’s regional chief warned.

“Mosquito virus is already here and a single bite of mosquito to a human infected with the Zika virus can spread out in the Philippines because of the mobility of the people,” said DOH regional director Dr. Napoleon Arevalo.

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