On August 5th, a baby was born with microcephaly at San Carlos Hospital. He tested positive for the first zica analysis. However, authorities keep studying his case.
As confirmed by Rodrigo Marín, Minister of Health, it is a case in which the Nicaraguan mother spent the first 12 weeks of gestation in a community where there was a high risk of zica transmission.
He tested positive for Zika. There are still missing some analysis to directly relate his disease with Zika, because microcephaly has other causes. The mother gave birth in San Carlos. She had never been there. It is an imported case, but it does not mean that in Costa Rica there won’t be any cases,
said Marín.
On Wednesday 521 zica cases were confirmed.
The Ministry of Health urges people to eliminate breeding grounds because only people’s interest could help to stop this contagion.