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BRASILIA, Brazil (AFP) — Some 220,000 soldiers will hand out leaflets door-to-door across Brazil on Saturday, ahead of a massive insecticide-spraying operation as the government tries to stem an outbreak of the mosquito-borne Zika virus. “We have to protect the population, especially pregnant women, athletes and tourists who will come for the Olympic Games” in Rio de Janeiro in August, Defense Minister Aldo Rebelo said at a news conference Thursday. Troops will visit three million […]
SAN DIEGO, El Salvador (AFP) — With larva-chomping fish and genetically modified insects, Latin Americans are deploying legions of little helpers to destroy mosquitoes carrying the Zika virus in the world’s latest mass health scare. Scientists are devising numerous ways to try and stamp out the mosquitoes whose bites spread the virus, which they suspect can cause brain damage in babies and paralysis in adults. Some want to wipe out baby mosquito larvae in standing […]
(Reuters) — A student at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, has contracted the Zika virus, school officials said on Monday (February 1). “We are aware of this [and] we are monitoring it,” Communications Director Suzanne Seurattan told reporters, adding that, “our conversations with our own health and wellness team, as well as the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), show that there is no health risk here on campus […]
