Doctor Chernyshova assessed the likelihood of an epidemic of Zika fever in the Russian Federation A Russian woman, who returned from a vacation in Bali, contracted Zika fever, previously reported Rosputerbandzor. As general practitioner Nadezhda Chernyshova told AiF, only imported cases of infection are possible in Russia. "It is carried only by two species of mosquitoes that do not live in the territory of the Russian Federation. They exist in Bali, so you can get infected there and bring the heat here. Zika fever is not transmitted from person to person or through other insects, so we will not have local cases of fever. Accordingly, we won't have an epidemic either," the expert explained. Photo: AiF.

Doctor Chernyshova assessed the likelihood of an epidemic of Zika fever in the Russian Federation A Russian woman, who returned from a vacation in Bali, contracted Zika fever, previously reported Rosputerbandzor. As general practitioner Nadezhda Chernyshova told AiF, only imported cases of infection are possible in Russia. "It is carried only by two species of mosquitoes that do not live in the territory of the Russian Federation. They exist in Bali, so you can get infected there and bring the heat here. Zika fever is not transmitted from person to person or through other insects, so we will not have local cases of fever. Accordingly, we won't have an epidemic either," the expert explained. Photo: AiF.