The spread of a hitherto relatively mild virus in Latin America and its possible link to foetal damage is putting pressure on the Church over abortion and contraception
Experts at the World Health Organization are calling it a global health emergency while those at the United States National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases say it is “an explosive pandemic of Zika virus infection”. Usually humans catch it from mosquitoes but on Tuesday a patient in Texas was reported to have been infected by sexual contact. Not since the Ebola outbreak in December 2013, which killed 11,000 people around the globe, has there been such fear about a virus. Now Zika is spreading fast across Latin America, and as well as the US cases have been reported this week in Australia and Irelan
04 February 2016, The Tablet
In the shadow of Zika: a virus that is putting pressure on the Church over abortion and contraception
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