The 28-year-old patient was red-flagged at the Baiyun International Airport in Guangzhou on Friday after arriving with a high fever.

 

Authorities later confirmed the patient, whose identity and nationality has not been revealed, was exposed to an infected person in Venezuela days before returning to Guangzhou on February 9th via the Netherlands and Russia.

 

The patient is still quarantined, but has shown signs of recovery, with temperatures returning to normal.

 

China's first exposure to Zika, a Chinese national who also returned to China from South America earlier this month, was discharged from hospital on Sunday after a full recovery.

 

Disease prevention experts in China say the spread of Zika, a mosquito-borne virus, is relatively¹ low in China at this point, as the winter months keep the mosquito population low.

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