The Zika virus raged through 48 countries and territories in the Americas this year and was responsible for more than 4,700 cases in the U.S., according to new data.
The World Health Organization announced Friday that 532,000 suspected cases were found globally and 175,063 confirmed. In the U.S., 4,592 travel-associated cases were found in which someone got the virus while traveling to another country or territory and more than 200 cases locally spread in the U.S., as of Dec. 28, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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