An Aedes aegypti mosquito, known to carry the Zika virus. AP/Felipe Dana
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - What an irony: the Indonesian health minister issuing a travel advisory on visitors arriving from Singapore! “We have set up scanners at all ferry ports in Batam,” said Mohamad Subuh, director-general for disease control and environmental health, at a press briefing. We might be able to scan and prevent people from entering Indonesia, but who will stop those mosquitoes from flying over and creating a similar if not worse havoc in Indonesia? So, our advise to Health Ministry officials is to be ‘Forewarned and Forearmed’. In other words: let’s be prepared. If zika mosquitoes can attack super-clean Singapore, can unsprayed, unattended areas of Indonesia be far behind?
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