MIAMI: US health authorities Friday described the cases of nine pregnant women who contracted the Zika virus while traveling, two of whom chose abortion and one who gave birth to a baby with microcephaly.

The women’s identities were not released by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which described them in a report covering the time period of August 2015 to February 2016.

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