Too costly for Indonesia to thoroughly test for Zika: health official

By Kanupriya Kapoor and Glenys Kirana JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia can not afford to thoroughly check for a possible Zika outbreak, a health ministry official said, as Southeast Asia's most populous country must focus on fighting dengue, a potentially fatal virus also carried by mosquitoes. The World Health Organisation (WHO) lists Indonesia among Asian countries with possible endemic transmission of, or evidence of, local Zika infections, but authorities in the sprawling nation of 250 million people have yet to report any recent infections. Both dengue and Zika are spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which is common across Southeast Asia.