The World Health Organization on Monday is convening a meeting in Geneva to determine whether a global health emergency should be declared for the Zika virus.

WHO is responding in a more pro-active manner to the relatively minor mosquito-borne virus in contrast to its slow response to the lethal 2013 outbreak of Ebola in West Africa, for which the U.N. agency faced heavy criticism.

Zika, suspected of causing a surge of birth defects in South Africa, is “spreading explosively” in the Americas, according to the WHO.

The U.N. agency also believes the disease has been more common in Southeast Asia than the smattering read more >>>

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