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General travel-health advisories cover vaccines and malaria for all travelers, but Zika infection during pregnancy carries a specific, serious risk of birth defects that most other travelers don't need to think about. Zika risk isn't spread evenly around the world — it's concentrated in parts of Latin America, the Caribbean, and Southeast Asia, and largely a non-issue elsewhere. Knowing where your destination falls, and talking it through with your OB/GYN, is worth doing before you book, not after.
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