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The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday declared the link between the Zika virus and growing rates of infant birth defects "a public health emergency of international concern." During an emergency meeting , the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee, said the mosquito-borne virus itself does not pose an urgent threat. However, the growing rates of microcephaly-a condition in which a baby is born with an abnormally small skull and incomplete brain development-warrant a coordinated international response that will include expediting research to prove there is a causal relationship. [Source: Newsweek]
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