Brazil Government Urge Women To Delay Pregnancy Over Zika Virus

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El Salvador’s Public health officials have advised women to delay pregnancy for the next two years to prevent children from developing birth defects from the mosquito-borne Zika virus. 
Government’s decision comes after the country detected 5,397 cases of the Zika virus in El Salvador in 2015 and in the first few days of 2016.
Vice Minister of Public Health, Eduardo Espinoza, said that women who were already pregnant should stay covered outdoors to reduce the risk of mosquito bites. 
Espinoza suggested to all the women of fertile age to take steps to plan their pregnancies, and avoid getting pregnant between next two years.
Official figures showed that 96 pregnant women were suspected of having contracted the virus, but so far none have had babies born with abnormally small heads, which the disease can cause.
President Dilma Rousseff said that Brazilian researchers were working with domestic and foreign laboratories to attempt to develop a vaccine for the Zika and dengue viruses.
Meanwhile, Colombia has the second-highest Zika infection rate after Brazil.

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