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Maldives. The virus has long been present in<br />

Africa and Asia and it's caused alarm after<br />

appearing last year in Brazil, where it's<br />

suspected of causing birth defects.<br />

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12:10 p.m.<br />

Venezuela's medical community is demanding<br />

the government publish statistics about<br />

infections by the Zika virus and warning it could<br />

already be alarmingly widespread.<br />

Venezuela's Ministry of Health has so far only<br />

confirmed the presence of the mosquito-borne<br />

illness in the country bordering Brazil, where<br />

Zika is suspected of causing birth defects.<br />

The ministry stopped publishing data on all<br />

epidemic diseases a year ago.<br />

Former Health Minister Jose Felix Oletta says it<br />

is unacceptable that the government has waited<br />

so long to release Zika statistics and begin<br />

working to contain the virus.

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