Even though I don't ever plan on having children I still don't want to risk becoming infected with this thing. Hope it hasn't mutated by then as well and there's another strain of Zika that has additional issues for your health. Hopefully it won't come to that but I've been to Puerto Rico every year of my 38 year life. So hopefully they get this thing under control.

symptoms that they pass it off as having overdone one activity or another. Most of the rest have joint and muscle pain that send them in for medical care. It was never studied much after it was identified in Africa because it's a mild childhood illness there, conferring lifetime immunity once it's over.

Zika will likely spread over a good part of the US. Even here in the high desert, we get things like West Nile, but mosquitoes are only down near the river, there's not enough standing water for them even in monsoon season for them to move too far on shore.

Short term, it's going to be a disaster, thanks in part to Republicans. Long term, there are four vaccines in the pipeline and they all work in early trials.

If I had a chance to visit, say, in February, I'd definitely go. I'd reek like a Girl Scout camp for the duration because I just hate mosquitoes in general, but I'm more afraid of dengue than I am of Zika.