Children and spouses can be infected if they are bitten by infected mosquitoes, so they should protect themselves with repellent, too. The main risk to you would be from unprotected sex with your spouse, so practice safe sex throughout the pregnancy. That is probably because the infected mosquito bit only one person before dying. decided to tell pregnant women not to go to the sites of the two Florida clusters, the areas of confirmed risk. “But you have to give people enough information to make decisions to protect themselves.”It’s a balancing act — for public officials and for pregnant women.

Source: New York Times August 26, 2016 20:02 UTC