Women shun pregnancy due to Zika

Paris: More than half of young Brazilian women have shunned pregnancy over fears of Zika, which can cause birth defects, according to a report released on Friday. In a national survey in June of more than 2,000 literate women in Brazil aged 18 to 39, 56 per cent said they had “avoided, or tried to avoid pregnancy” due to the virus, according to an article in the medical journal BMJ.