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Zika isn’t just in South America-the virus has spread up Central America to Mexico and has also been detected in the Caribbean, Pacific Islands and Cape Verde.

African region, have been urged to be watchful and prepare to tackle any signs of the Zika virus disease.

On Tuesday, Colombia reported that almost 100 cases of GBS have been reported across the country, with all these patients also suffering from Zika.

The taskforce, created in March last year, spoke to over 20,000 people to understand what the top mental health service priorities list should be over the next five years.

Citing the North’s nuclear test last month and long-range rocket launch on February 7, which was widely viewed as a ballistic missile test, Park said it was clear Pyongyang had no intention of discussing denuclearisation.

CNN is reporting that a Disney cruise ship stopped yesterday during a cruise to the Cayman Islands to pick up 12 Cubans who took to sea to leave their homeland.

Mosquitoes that can transmit the Zika virus are found in the US, but so far aside from the Dallas sexual transmission case all the infections reported in the continental United States have been among travelers who got infected elsewhere.

The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta has issued new warnings about the Zika virus. As such, the arrival of travelers makes it likely that Maryland will see confirmed cases of infection.

So far, there have been no reports of sexual transmission of Zika virus from infected women to their sex partners, the CDC added.

Scientists believe the virus attacks the baby’s brain, triggering microcephaly, a condition in which newborns have abnormally small heads, impaired vision and brain damage.

He spoke a day before tens of thousands of soldiers and health inspectors were to take to the streets in an unprecedented drive to encourage residents to be vigilant for mosquito breeding sites.

Abhishek Joshi, a heart doctor at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London, said the new contracts could stop hospital operators from being penalised if doctors work prolonged shifts, “at the end of which we’ll be exhausted and therefore dangerous”.

They are being advised to abstain from sexual relations or use condoms if the male partner has been to a place where the Zika virus is transmitting.

Many countries have raised their alert levels or boosted their efforts against the Zika virus as scientists race to develop a vaccine for Zika, but the World Health Organization (WHO) says vaccines could come out in at least 18 months.