CDC Expands Zika Warning Most additions are in the Americas

The CDC has added eight countries to its list of places where the risk of Zika virus merits a travel alert for pregnant women. The additions, listed in an early release from Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, are Barbados, Bolivia, Ecuador, Guadeloupe, Saint Martin, Guyana, Cape Verde, and Samoa. Last week, the agency had urged expectant mothers or women planning to get pregnant to avoid visiting Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Martinique, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Suriname, Venezuela, and Puerto Rico. http://www.medpagetoday.com/InfectiousDisease/GeneralInfectiousDisease/55805?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2016-01-23&eun=g721819d0r