First Czech Republic Zika cases confirmed

  25 February 2016    Read: 1373
First Czech Republic Zika cases confirmed
Czech health officials have announced the first cases of the mosquito-borne Zika virus in the Czech Republic.
The World Health Organisation declared the Zika outbreak - linked to thousands of birth defects in Brazil - an international health emergency on February 1, citing a "strongly suspected" relationship between Zika infection in pregnancy and microcephaly in newborns.

It was not clear where the people in the Czech Republic contracted the virus or whether they had travelled to countries such as Brazil, where Zika has hit hardest.

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