U.S. Provides more international locations to Zika travel alert

The U.S. Facilities for disorder control and Prevention (CDC) elevated its travel warning to one more eight international locations or territories that pose a chance of infection with Zika, a mosquito-borne virus spreading through the Caribbean and Latin the usa.

Friday's warning adds Barbados, Bolivia, Ecuador, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Cape Verde, Samoa and the island of Saint Martin to a record of 14 nations and territories.

The CDC has advised pregnant women to not travel to these areas as Zika has been suspected to result in birth defects.

The Zika virus is transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which can also be known to carry the dengue, yellow fever and Chikungunya viruses.

Wellbeing gurus are uncertain why the virus - detected in Africa in 1947 but unknown in the Americas except last year - is spreading so quickly in Brazil and neighboring countries.

There's no vaccine or cure for Zika, which reasons mild fevers and rashes. An estimated eighty percent of those infected show no signs at all.

Researchers in Brazil said on Wednesday they had located new proof linking the virus to increasing incidence of microcephaly, a  in which toddlers are born with surprisingly small heads.

U.S. Authorities verified on Saturday the start of a youngster with a small head in Hawaii to a mother who had been contaminated with the Zika virus while visiting Brazil.

The agency issued an advisory last week towards travel to Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Martinique, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Suriname, Venezuela, and the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.