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Zika virus emerggency talks

01/02/2016 GMT

Zika Virus Emergency Talks

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Should a global health emergency be declared over the Zika virus outbreak?

The World Health Organisation discusses whether to declare a global health emergency over the outbreak of the Zika virus.

An emergency meeting of the World Health Organization is being held to discuss the "explosive" spread of the Zika virus. Also, chef Benoit Violier, whose Swiss restaurant was named the best in the world in December, is found dead at his home.

(Photo: A Brazilian mother holds her three-month-old baby, who has microcephaly - a severe birth defect to which the mosquito-borne Zika virus has been linked. Credits: Mario Tama/Getty Images)

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