Northerners in the Western Hemisphere have been urged not to worry too much about the Zika virus. It will primarily be a problem in more tropical areas, like Guam, Puerto Rico, Central and South America, and the Virgin Islands. People from other areas who travel to those places should take anti-mosquito precautions, of course, but there’s not much to suggest that the Aedes aegypti mosquito will make it to places like Washington, D.C., New York, Chicago, or San Francisco.
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