St Louis: Two pregnant women from Illinois have contracted the mosquito-borne Zika virus while travelling in Honduras and Haiti, while a baby was born with the virus in Hawaii raising fears the virus is spreading to the US. Zika has been linked to potentially fatal birth defects in Brazil, where authorities have linked it to a spike in newborns with microcephaly, or underdeveloped brains. The virus has been found in the Caribbean, Central America and South America. The two women are being monitored by doctors but the US Centres for Disease...
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