A second baby born in the U.S. has died from complications linked to the Zika virus, health officials in Texas said Tuesday.
The baby girl, born in Harris County with a serious Zika-caused birth defect called microcephaly, died shortly after birth. She is the second infant to die in the continential U.S. due to the virus, which is now spreading via mosquito bites in Florida and has infected nearly 2,000 people in the country.
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