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Zika could soon infect 4 million; U.S. impact likely to be much smaller


 

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For now, the CDC’s Zika travel alert includes Puerto Rico, Barbados, Bolivia, Brazil, Cape Verde, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Martinique, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Saint Martin, Samoa, Suriname, Venezuela, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Dominican Republic.

A transcript of the press briefing is available online.

This article was updated 2/1/2016.

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