As we’ve long feared it would, Zika has arrived in Malaysia. The country recorded its first case of a locally transmitted Zika infection in an elderly man in Sabah on August 3. Another case was soon recorded in Kota Kinabalu shortly thereafter. “The confirmation of the second case of Zika…

For the past six months, the mosquito-borne Zika virus, which is believed to cause a variety of debilitating birth defects, including microcephaly (a condition in which babies are born with unusually small heads and shriveled brains), has been spreading far and wide across the tropics. To date it has infected…