Here's What You Need To Know About Zika

Brazil’s Health Ministry on Wednesday reported that 4,180 suspected cases of the Zika virus — which can cause a rare brain defect in newborns — had been recorded as of this past week, but that just 270 of those had been confirmed. The mosquito-borne virus had been ruled out in another 462 cases involving the brain damage, officials said.

Since October, 68 deaths have been reported due to congenital malformations after (stillbirth) or during pregnancy (miscarriage), the ministry reported. Of those, 12 were confirmed to the relationship with congenital infection, all in the Northeast — 10 in Rio Grande do Norte, 1 in Ceará, and 1 in Piauí.The numbers come one day after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday said pregnant women should postpone travel to two more regions in South and Central America because of the risk of contracting the Zika virus, raising the total number of regions on the warning list to 24.Read more at...BuzzFeed News, January 2016.