Myanmar's government said today that a pregnant foreign woman has been diagnosed with the country's first case of Zika, a mosquito-borne virus linked to birth defects.<br/><br/>Soe Lwin Nyein, the director of Myanmar's public health department, told reporters, a 32-year-old foreign woman was the country's "first Zika victim". <br/><br/>He did not disclose the woman's nationality but said she had been living in Myanmar for several years and was currently in Yangon, the country's largest city.<br/><br/>The World Health Organization warned earlier this month that Zika was likely to spread throughout Asia after being detected in 70 countries, including at least 19 in the Asia<br/>Pacific region.