2016 was a big year for science. Ebola was the biggest public-health emergency in 2015, and, this year, another virus known as Zika entered our lexicon. It was also a year for scientific firsts, including an unmanned spacecraft named Juno successfully beginning to orbit the planet Jupiter.
The year began with governments around the world, including Australia, issuing travel warnings to pregnant women about going to Zika-infected countries.
Those countries ranged across South America, the Caribbean, Central America, Africa and the Pacific Islands.
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