Do You Still Need to Be Worried About Zika?

The media has stopped paying attention. Does that mean you can, too?

Erin Schumaker
Elemental
Published in
7 min readAug 26, 2019

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A close-up of a mosquito sitting on human skin.
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WWhen Maureen McCollum, now 37, got married during the height of the Zika virus pandemic in 2016, her honeymoon to the Dominican Republic was on the chopping block.

“I would cancel your trip,” doctors said at the time, when the couple expressed that…

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