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CDC also advises that pregnant women postpone travel to any area where the virus is being transmitted, and that those who have traveled to one of the endemic countries and have two or more symptoms within two weeks of travel should be tested.

As part of the offensive, which began earlier this week, pro-government troops have recaptured several villages near the Turkish border, sending thousands of area residents fleeing toward Turkey.

Until now, cases of Zika-linked microcephaly have been mainly in Brazil and in Hawaii, where a woman who had traveled to Brazil recently had a baby with the birth defect.

An allegation of rape is still outstanding and a European Arrest Warrant in place, so the United Kingdom continues to have a legal obligation to extradite him to Sweden.

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The U.N. human rights agency called for some nations to loosen strict laws against abortion and US health authorities recommended men who have visited areas with the Zika virus use condoms if they have sex with pregnant women.

Canadian blood agencies earlier on Wednesday announced that anyone who had travelled to a Zika-risk area will be ineligible to give blood for three weeks upon their return.

Raiola might be fighting her “biggest battle” yet – as her sister put it – but she has a major support system to lean on throughout all of this.

The guidance comes three days after Dallas County Health and Human Services (DCHHS) in Texas announced that a local patient had become ill with the virus after having sex with an infected traveler who had recently returned from Venezuela, a country with Zika activity.

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The World Health Organization (WHO) says the virus is strongly suspected to cause microcephaly and has called the Zika virus “a global health emergency”.

The ministry says the number of cases diagnosed so far are within expectations and do not pose a risk for the virus to be spread in Spain. “It is of concern to us because it is primarily spread by mosquitoes, not the ones that spread malaria but another type which we also...

WHO will convene an emergency committee meeting to discuss the Zika virus next Monday to ascertain whether the outbreak constitutes a public health emergency of global concern.

All of those who were diagnosed with the virus contracted it while traveling outside the country, in areas where transmission of the Zika virus is continuing, Scott said.