{"id":2929,"date":"2016-05-19T09:19:42","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T13:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2929"},"modified":"2016-05-19T09:19:42","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T13:19:42","slug":"georgia-women-weigh-zika-risks-as-mosquito-season-arrives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2929","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Women Weigh Zika Risks As Mosquito Season Arrives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Michell Eloy, WABE for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Katy Mallory\u2019s husband, Dan, traveled to Mexico for business. That itself\u00a0is not\u00a0typically a big deal, but Katy is pregnant with twin girls, and Mexico is among the countries where the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say mosquitoes are actively spreading Zika, a\u00a0virus that\u2019s been linked to severe birth defects.<\/p>\n<p>Dan Mallory says in the middle of his trip, news hit that the Zika wasn\u2019t only transmitted by mosquitoes, but could also be sexually transmitted. So when he returned, the Decatur couple decided to follow the CDC\u2019s recommendation: use condoms during sex. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/georgia-women-weigh-zika-risks-as-mosquito-season-arrives\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 15px\/1.6 'Open Sans', serif; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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