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The World Health Organization (WHO) earlier this week (June 7) issued new guidelines, recommending that people who live in areas where the Zika virus is actively being transmitted to consider delaying pregnancy due to the risk of infection-associated birth defects. The recommendation could affect millions of people across Latin America and the Caribbean, including Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands, The New York Times reported.
“It’s about time,” Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine in Texas, told the New York Times. Hotez also raised concerns about what might happen if the virus reaches parts of the U.S. this summer.
The WHO’s most recent advice, which was prompted by findings that the mosquito-borne virus can ...
