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

Mexico

Ecuador

Cape Verde

Brazil

Bolivia

Paraguay

Thailand

Limit of range of Aedes aegpyti mosquito

Samoa

Guatemala

El Salvador

Honduras

Panama

Haiti

Colombia

Dominican Republic

Puerto Rico

U.S. Virgin Islands

Venezuela

Saint Martin (FR)

Guadeloupe (FR)

Martinique (FR)

Barbados

Guyana

Suriname

French Guiana

500km 300 miles

Zika spread: Primarily through bite 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, is still being investigated

Sources: CDC, ECDC, WHO

Picture: Associated Press