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WHO Declares Zika An 'International Public Health Emergency’

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The World Health Organisation has declared the mosquito-borne Zika virus to be an international public health emergency. Image: Prof David L. Heymann (L), Chair of the Emergency Committee, and Margaret Chan (R), WHO General Director (AAP)


The decision comes as the disease - linked to thousands of birth defects in Brazil - continues to spread rapidly.

 

 

 

 


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