Global emergency declared

over Zika virus

The World Health Organization has declared the mosquito-borne Zika virus an international public health emergency due to its suspected link to thousands of birth defects in Brazil

Dominican Republic

Puerto Rico

U.S.

Haiti

Caribbean:

Barbados,

Mexico

Honduras

Curaçao

Guadeloupe

Martinique

Saint Martin

NL,

FR,

FR,

FR

Guatemala

Jamaica

Venezuela

Panama

El Salvador

Guyana

Nicaragua

Suriname

Colombia

French Guiana

Zika virus

Ecuador

outbreak in Americas

(2015–present)

Brazil:

Almost 4,000

babies born with

microcephaly

since Oct 2015

Bolivia

Rio de

Janeiro

Aedes

aegypti

mosquito

Paraguay

Picture: AP

Sources:

WHO, CDC

© GRAPHIC NEWS

Global emergency

declared over Zika virus

The World Health Organization has declared the mosquito-borne Zika virus an international public health emergency due to its suspected link to thousands of birth defects in Brazil

Jamaica

Dominican Republic

Haiti

Puerto Rico

U.S.

Panama

Caribbean:

Honduras

Barbados,

Curaçao

Guadeloupe

Martinique

Saint Martin

NL,

Mexico

FR,

Venezuela

Guatemala

FR,

El Salvador

FR

Nicaragua

Colombia

Ecuador

French

Guiana

Guyana

Zika virus outbreak

in Americas

Suriname

(2015–present)

Bolivia

Rio de

Janeiro

Paraguay

Brazil: Almost 4,000 babies born

with microcephaly since Oct 2015

Aedes

aegypti

mosquito

Picture: AP

© GRAPHIC NEWS

Sources: WHO, CDC

Global

emergency

declared over

Zika virus

The World Health Organization has declared the mosquito-borne Zika virus an international public health emergency due to its suspected link to thousands of birth defects in Brazil

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4

5

6

7

2

1

20

14

8

15

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13

16

10

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Zika virus

18

outbreak in

Americas

19

(2015–present)

1

Mexico

Guyana

14

2

Honduras

Suriname

15

3

Panama

French

Guiana

16

4

Jamaica

5

Haiti

Brazil

17

6

Dominican Rep.

Bolivia

18

7

Puerto Rico

U.S.

Paraguay

19

8

Guatemala

Caribbean:

20

9

El Salvador

Barbados

Nicaragua

Curaçao

NL

10

Colombia

Guadeloupe

FR

11

Ecuador

Martinique

FR

12

Venezuela

Saint Martin

FR

13

Brazil: Almost 4,000 babies born

with microcephaly since Oct 2015

Picture: AP

Sources: WHO, CDC

© GRAPHIC NEWS