Men and women returning from an area where Zika is spreading should refrain from sex or use condoms for eight weeks as a preventive step to stop the spread of the virus, according to updated guidance form the World Health Organization.

That is twice the amount of time the WHO recommended back in February, when the group said four weeks is enough to prevent sexual transmission of the virus.

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