Mexico’s Health Department has now confirmed six pregnant women have been infected with the mosquito-borne Zika virus.
The department said this week there were 80 confirmed cases of locally acquired Zika throughout Mexico as of Feb. 12. Forty-five cases were in Chiapas, which borders Guatemala and where four of the pregnant women live, and 25 in neighbouring Oaxaca state. Four were in the northern border state of Nuevo Leon.
Some believe the virus is linked to a spike in cases of babies born with abnormally small heads, or microcephaly, but there is as yet no definitive proof it has caused the birth defects.
