Trinidad and Tobago’s Minister of Health Terrence Deyalsingh declared that 200 out of the 376 people infected with Zika are pregnant women.
In late January, the Ministry of Health of Trinidad and Tobago announced that they would consider Zika virus a national, public health emergency.
During a visit to Maraval, Deyalsingh found that mosquitoes’ breeding sites, that had been identified in a previous visit, had not been eliminated, so a law was amended to increase the fines for those who own objects that could become potential mosquitoes’ breeding sites.
Zika is not usually a mortal disease, but in pregnant women it may cause fetal microcephaly and other malformations.