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Do I need to worry about Zika when travelling?

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You may remember the concerns around the Zika virus during the Rio Olympics but did you know how much it could impact on your fertility?Zika virus infection, a condition mainly transmitted by mosquitoes, has been declared an international public health emergency by the World Health Organisation (WHO).ADVERTISEMENT - CONTINUE READING BELOWThe infection is a mild flu-like illness, but has devastating impact on the health of an unborn child if either parent has been exposed to the virus – it causes microcephaly, which is a birth defect where a baby's head is smaller than expected when compared with other babies of the same sex and age.
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Scientists don't have a decade to find a Zika vaccine. They need volunteers now.

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Virginia Bliss and her daughter, Suzanne, on the back porch of their home in Tucker, Ga. (Kevin D. Liles for The Washington Post)They are three women who have spent months getting an experimental vaccine in the name of science.On each date of a strict timetable, they've headed to windowless exam rooms in Bethesda, Md., Baltimore and Atlanta and stuck out their arms, to get an injection or to have blood drawn.How their bodies react will determine whether this clinical trial — one of the first — proceeds to the next stage in a long and complicated process.
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Why we still need to pay attention to Zika (Opinion)

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At least that's what I was told, and that's what I believed for six long, painful weeks.They were excruciating weeks of waiting for a special test that only the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention can do to confirm whether I had, in fact, contracted Zika during the beginning of my first trimester -- a crucial period of time for a fetus' brain and nervous system development.I endured over 40 anxiety-provoking days carrying my second baby, one that I wasn't sure I would be able to keep, before learning that my test result was -- thankfully -- a false positive.
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