Zika Virus Prompts CDC Travel Alert

Editor's note: This story was updated Jan. 19, 2016, with the CDC issuing guidance for pregnant women who have traveled to the warning areas. Jan. 7, 2016 -- The mosquito-borne Zika virus has prompted a CDC travel warning for parts of Central...

CDC expands Zika virus travel alert

Health authorities have added eight tropical destinations to a travel alert about an illness linked with a severe birth defect and spread by mosquitoes. The updated alert issued Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention brings the...

Zika virus travel precautions supported by American Ob-Gyn group

The U.S. Ob-Gyn group supports the Zika virus travel precautions set out to protect pregnant women from traveling to countries stricken by the Zika virus. Pregnant women are at high risk of contracting the Zika virus, which can lead to birth...

Government has not barred Malaysians from travelling to South, Central America, says deputy health minister

Government has not barred Malaysians from travelling to South, Central America, says deputy health minister Pietro Rafael, who has microcephaly, reacts to stimulus during an evaluation session with a physiotherapist at the Altino Ventura...

United, American to refund travel to regions hit with Zika virus

United Airlines says customers booked to fly to areas affected by the virus can reschedule or get refunds. American Airlines says it will give refunds to pregnant women who were planning to travel to parts of Central America. (AP) Two major U.S....

Zika virus continues to spread; CDC expands travel alert to 22 destinations

Health authorities have added eight tropical destinations to a travel alert about an illness linked with a severe birth defect and spread by mosquitoes. The updated alert issued Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention brings the...

U.S. Virgin Islands and Dominican Republic added to Zika virus travel advisory

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have once again added destinations to the travel advisories for Zika virus. The U.S. Virgin Islands and the Dominican Republic are now on the list of countries for which the CDC says pregnant women should...

Paris Advises Pregnant Women to Postpone Travel to French Caribbean

Paris Advises Pregnant Women to Postpone Travel to French Caribbean PARIS - French Health Minister Marisol Touraine recommended on Thursday that pregnant women postpone any scheduled trips to the French Caribbean due to the risk posed by the Zika...

Two popular tourist destinations added to Zika Virus travel alert

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention has added two new countries to the Zika Virus travel alert. The United States Virgin Islands and the Dominican Republic join dozens of other counties where the Zika virus is being transmitted. Right...

Zika Virus: This Is the New Mosquito-Borne Disease Travelers Have to Worry About

Mosquitos are one of the deadliest insects on earth. (Photo: James Gathany/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention via AP) As if travelers didn’t have enough to worry about with mosquitos spreading diseases like Dengue, Chikungunya, and West...

Spread of Zika Virus Prompts Travel Advisories

Photo A health agent in Sao Paulo shows a soldier mosquito larvae that she found during a clean-up program. Credit Andre Penner/Associated Press Travel warnings about the Zika virus, especially for pregnant women, are very much in the news now,...

US expands travel warning over Zika virus

MIAMI: US health authorities Friday expanded a travel warning for pregnant women to avoid 22 places in Latin America and the Caribbean due to the Zika virus, which has been linked to birth defects. Barbados, Bolivia, Ecuador, Guadeloupe, Saint...

CDC issues travel warning due to Zika

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday night suggested pregnant women not travel to 14 countries or areas where the Zika virus is present. The CDC was prompted by tests that found Zika, a mosquito-borne illness, in fetal and...

Fourteen countries in a US travel alert for pregnant women because of Zika virus

With the virus linked to birth defects, CDC has advised pregnant women that should consider postponing travel to areas where Zika virus transmission is ongoing Mosquito transmitted Zika causes a dengue-like illness, with symptoms that include...

Pregnant and travelling to South America? DON'T is the advise as Zika virus poses risk

Pregnant Britons planning trips to areas affected by the Zika virus are being urged to reconsider their travel plans because of risks posed to their unborn children. There is an unprecedented outbreak of the virus in Brazil and health experts have...

The great Friday travel sale - as it happened

Audley has cut the price of a four-night luxury cruise on the Belmond Road to Mandalay by £900pp - now £3,555pp, including one night in Yangon, one night in Mandalay, two nights on Inle Lake and four nights cruising between Mandalay and Bagan....

The great Friday travel sale

Audley has cut the price of a four-night luxury cruise on the Belmond Road to Mandalay by £900pp - now £3,555pp, including one night in Yangon, one night in Mandalay, two nights on Inle Lake and four nights cruising between Mandalay and Bagan....

Zika virus: U.S. issues travel warning for pregnant women

The United States warned pregnant women to avoid travel to 14 countries including Brazil due to the mosquito-borne Zika virus, which has been linked to birth defects. "The virus is spreading fairly rapidly through the Americas," said Lyle...

New countries added to Zika virus travel warning for pregnant women

As worries of Zika virus in the western hemisphere continue and the danger it poses to the unborn child of pregnant women, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has added countries where the disease is at outbreak levels and to where it...

A travel advisory has been issued by the CDC over mosquito-spread Zika virus

There has been an alarming spread of an infectious disease caused by the mosquito-spread Zika virus. Ars Technica reported on Jan. 17, 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a travel advisory for 14 countries which...