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WHO: Zika epidemic requires ‘research-guided’ public health interventions


 

FROM A JOINT PAHO/WHO MEETING

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He said that there is a special need for prevention efforts aimed at pregnant women, including means of protecting them from mosquito bites with the use of insect repellents, window screens, and bed nets, and also the use of condoms to protect them from the possibility of infection from sex with an infected partner.

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