The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) confirmed Friday that a second Taiwanese national has been confirmed to have the Zika virus after returning from the Caribbean.
The patient is a 27-year-old man from New Taipei who had been working in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. The CDC said the man had arrived back in Taiwan on Thursday and presented himself to health authorities with a fever and a rash. Testing confirmed the man was infected with Zika and he has been placed under quarantine.
On August 4th, a case of Zika was detected in a 43-year-old Taiwanese woman who had spent several months in St. Lucia.
The latest case is the fifth imported case of Zika infection and the second in a Taiwanese national.
The Zika virus is rarely fatal but has been linked to birth defects in babies born to mothers who contract the virus while pregnant.