Pregnant women are warned about "head shrinking virus" in Latin American.

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The United States Centers For Disease Control is issuing a WARNING to all pregnant women . . . do not go to Latin America or the Caribbean . . . or your baby might be born with a birth defect.

This is especially difficult for people looking i=to attend this years SUMMER OLYMPICS. Pregnant women are being warned not to travel to the Olympics in Brazil after a virus causing thousands of babies to be born with unusually small heads swept through the region.

Researchers say that the mosquito-born ZICO virus has caused a meaningful spike in Microcephaly, a neurological disorder in which infants are born with smaller craniums and brains.

The outbreak has spread with such speed that the US-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued the warning to pregnant women not to travel to Brazil and 13 other countries in Latin America and the Caribbean - potentially affecting thousands intending to arrive in Rio for the Olympics this August.

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