(TRUNEWS) The government of El Salvador has warned women against getting pregnant for two years for fear their babies could get a brain damaging virus transmitted by mosquitoes.
Health officials in Jamaica and other Latin American countries are giving women the same advice.
In Brazil, abortion is on the rise, as women react in fear to the thought of their babies being born with microcephaly, a form of brain damage believed to be linked to the Zika virus, which is transmitted by certain mosquitoes.
More than 2,700 babies were born with the disease in Brazil in 2015, which is a dramatic increase from 150 the previous year.
The virus was discovered in Uganda in 1947, according to The Telegraph, and has been an issue only in Africa and Asia.
The mosquito species that transmits Zika virus is common in Florida and along the Mexican border, but the pathogen has not yet been found in them. A few cases have popped up in the U.S., from people who had recently traveled to South America.
Some experts have said global warming and globalization has been a factor in the increase in Zika.
Doctors in Brazil are trying to come up with a vaccine, because of it is very likely the disease will continue to spread.
Some border states have been spraying by air massive amounts of pesticides, in recent years, to protect citizens against mosquito-borne illnesses.
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