There is so much misinformation being dissemenated on Zika.
1) First of all, it's been around for decades and was never considered of any importance until recently.
2) 80% of infected individuals have no symptoms
3) Of those who have symptoms, it is nothing more than something similar to a mild flu, which goes awa in a few days.
So, what's the big deal? A new strain of the virus started spreading from an epicenter in Brazil. Researchers believe pesticide spraying in that area resulted in a mutated viral strain infecting mosquitos in that region. This mutation resulted in incidences of microcephaly to some babies born from infected mothers. The risk of this was less than 10% to infected pregnant mothers and occured almost exclusively in the first trimester.
Zika is in Puerto Rico, but to date only one baby has been born with this deformity, and there is question as to where the mother actually contracted the disease. She was a poor woman who had no prenatal care and poor nutrition.
Mosquitos carry MUCH WORSE diseases than Zika and they are pretty much everywhere. Use spray and don't hang out where they breed, as you would anyway. I wouldn't let the threat of Zika keep me from visiting or living in Puerto Rico or starting a family.
