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Zika virus: mosquitoes and travel patterns will determine spread of virus

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor

On January 28, the World Health Organization (WHO) said that Zika virus, a mosquito-borne infection, was “spreading explosively,” and that within 12 months as many as four million people in the Americas could be exposed to the virus.

Zika, which is thought to be behind a dramatic increase in babies born in Brazil with abnormally small...

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