El Salvador’s Advice on Zika: Don’t Have Babies

Tuesday, January 26, 2016 - 08:40 in Health & Medicine

Grappling with a mosquito-borne virus linked to brain damage in infants, El Salvador is advising all women in the country not to get pregnant until 2018.

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