Explaining the Zika virus to pregnant patients: Current risks and tests

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Explaining the Zika virus to pregnant patients: Current risks and tests

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Vanessa Weenink

Tim Blackmore
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Data from returned travellers suggest extremely low rates of Zika infection

It is still likely that pregnant patients will seek counselling regarding travel to tropical areas and risk of exposure to Zika virus, as this case example illustrates

A 37-year-old woman and her partner holiday in Fiji, and a few weeks after returning find out she is preg- nant. The best estimate is that she is of 1