Employees with the municipal government collect used tires in San Juan, Puerto Rico, as part of an island-wide effort to stop the spread of the Zika virus. The U.S. territory has a total of 13,186 confirmed Zika cases, with a total of 102 hospitalizations and 34 cases of Guillain-Barre. A study published Friday in JAMA Pediatrics estimates that up to 270 babies in Puerto Rico could be born with microcephaly through mid-2017. The U.S. government last week declared a public health emergency in Puerto Rico because of Zika. The CDC recently urged Puerto Rico fight Zika with the insecticide naled through aerial spraying, but the governor rejected that proposal and instead authorized the use of Bti, an organic larvicide.

Source: CBC News August 19, 2016 19:41 UTC