State Minister for Heath and Family Welfare Zahid Malek on Tuesday confirmed that the first case of Zika virus was detected in Bangladesh last week. The State Minister said this while talking to journalists after a presentation from the Health Ministry at the Secretariat.He said the blood sample of a 67-year-old man from Chittagong was found infected with the virus, but he is now safe and sound.Zika virus was first discovered in 1947 and is named after the Zika forest in Uganda. In 1952, the first human cases of Zika were detected and since then, outbreaks of Zika have been reported in tropical Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific Islands. Zika outbreaks have probably occurred in many locations. Before 2007, at least 14 cases of Zika had been documented, although other cases were likely to have occurred and were not reported.