Everything You Need to Know About Zika Virus

If you’ve been too busy dealing with immediate concerns to really research Zika virus, now might be the time to arm yourself with some information. New sites have been reporting cases of the disease with growing alarm in recent months, but now the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the Zika virus an international public health emergency on Monday, which is a rare move and a clear indication that the outbreak poses a real threat. One of the major concerns is the virus’s link to microcephaly, a birth defect that causes babies to be born with small heads or with brain damage. Numbers of affected babies ...

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