WHO: Women should consider putting off pregnancy

By Paige Winfield Cunningham

Published June 9, 2016 9:22pm ET

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WHO: Women should consider putting off pregnancy — In a new guidance by the WHO, women in 46 countries across Latin America and the Caribbean should consider delaying pregnancy due to the Zika virus. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana) | Felipe Dana

Women in 46 countries across Latin America and the Caribbean should consider delaying pregnancy due to the Zika virus, the World Health Organization said in new guidance issued this week.

The guidance affects millions of people living in countries where Zika is being spread, causing severe birth defects in some infants whose mothers were infected with the virus.

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