has spread rapidly across the Caribbean this mont, prompting Jamaican health authorities to issue an unprecedented warning days before its expected arrival
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the Ministry of Health is advising women to delay becoming pregnant for the next six to 12 months, wrote Horace Dalley, health minister, in a public statement. he urged those who were already pregnant to take extra precautions to avoid being bitt
confirmation of the first infection in Haiti on 15 January had driven the Jamaican government to act, Dalley said later. The past week has also seen the virus confirmed in Barbados, Ecuador, Guadeloupe, Guadeloupe, Guyana, and Saint Martin.
The Zika virus is inching closer and closer to jamaica, as several of our Caribbran neighbours have reported case, The unborn baby is at high risk if the mother is infected in the first few mouths of pregnancy