Travel warnings grow over Zika virus

The Zika virus, which may be linked to brain damage in thousands of babies, is prompting governments to issue travel warnings to pregnant women for countries where the tropical fever has been detected

Locally transmitted cases of Zika virus reported in last two months

Cape

Verde

Thailand

Mexico

Brazil

Ecuador

Bolivia

Limit of range of

Aedes aegypti mosquito

Paraguay

Samoa

Guatemala

Dominican Republic

500km

300 miles

Puerto Rico

Saint Martin (FR)

Guadeloupe (FR)

Honduras

Martinique (FR)

U.S. Virgin

Islands

Haiti

Barbados

Guyana

Panama

Suriname

El Salvador

French

Guiana

Venezuela

Colombia

Primarily through bite of infected Aedes

Zika spread:

aegypti mosquito. Virus may also pass from mother to

foetus during pregnancy. Link between Zika and babies

born with underdeveloped brains, or microcephaly,

is still being investigated

Sources: CDC, ECDC, WHO

Picture: Associated Press

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Travel warnings grow over Zika virus

The Zika virus, which may be linked to brain damage in thousands of babies, is prompting governments to issue travel warnings to pregnant women for countries where the tropical fever has been detected

Locally transmitted cases of Zika virus in last two months

Cape

Verde

Thailand

Mexico

Brazil

Ecuador

Bolivia

Range of Aedes

aegypti mosquito

Paraguay

Samoa

Guatemala

Dominican Republic

Puerto Rico

Saint Martin

Guadeloupe

Honduras

Martinique

U.S. Virgin Is.

Haiti

Barbados

Panama

French

Guiana

Venezuela

El Salvador

Colombia

Guyana

Suriname

Primarily through bite

Zika spread:

of infected Aedes aegypti mosquito.

Virus may also pass from mother to

foetus during pregnancy. Link

between Zika and babies born

with underdeveloped brains,

or microcephaly, being investigated

Sources: CDC, ECDC, WHO

Picture: AP

© GRAPHIC NEWS

Travel warnings grow over Zika virus

The Zika virus, which may be linked to brain damage in thousands of babies, is prompting governments to issue travel warnings to pregnant women for countries where the tropical fever has been detected

Locally transmitted cases of

Zika virus in last two months

Range of Aedes aegypti mosquito

Thailand

Mexico

Cape Verde

Detail

map

Bolivia

Paraguay

Samoa

Guatemala

Haiti

Dominican Rep.

Honduras

Puerto Rico

Panama

French

Guiana

Venezuela

El Salvador

Colombia

Suriname

Ecuador

Brazil

Guyana

U.S. Virgin

Islands

Saint Martin

Guadeloupe

Martinique

Barbados

Primarily through bite of

Zika spread:

infected Aedes aegypti mosquito. Virus

may also pass from mother to foetus

during pregnancy. Link between Zika

and babies born with underdeveloped

brains, or microcephaly, is still being

investigated

Picture: AP

Sources:

CDC, ECDC, WHO

© GRAPHIC NEWS