Zika No Longer a Global Health Emergency, WHO Says

The World Health Organization said Friday that the Zika virus no longer posed a world public health emergency, but it stressed the need for a long-term response to the mosquito-borne disease. "The Zika virus remains a highly significant and long-term problem, but it is not anymore a public health emergency of international concern," the U.N. health agency's emergency committee said. Brazil, which has seen the worst of the Zika crisis, said Friday that it would maintain...

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