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Zika Virus – A Travel Alert but NOT for Costa Rica… Yet!
January 19th, 2016
I am getting a ton of email asking about the Zika Virus. In fact… so many emails that I felt I needed to post the hot skinny on this disease.
Most important is the Zika has not yet arrived in Costa Rica. That’s the good news. The bad news is that it is now in about 19 other countries, and I know that a lot of folks visiting Costa Rica have travel plans that will take them to one of these other countries.
The next important thing is that Zika has very few symptoms, BUT can have devastating affects to the unborn children of pregnant women who contract this disease in any other other other countries. Babies are born with very small skulls and apparently some brain damage.
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