WHO revises sex guidelines for Zika prevention

by Sandee LaMotte, CNN

Updated 1756 GMT (0156 HKT) May 31, 2016

Microbiologist Brian Foy poses on a hillside above the villages of Ibel and Ndebou in southeastern Senegal in the summer of 2008. Senegal is a small country in West Africa.
Photos: First Zika transmitted via sex
Microbiologist Brian Foy poses on a hillside above the villages of Ibel and Ndebou in southeastern Senegal in the summer of 2008. Senegal is a small country in West Africa.
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From left: Graduate student Kevin Kobylinski, African researcher Massamba Sylla and CSU microbiologist Brian Foy pause during mosquito collection in Senegal.
Photos: First Zika transmitted via sex
From left: Graduate student Kevin Kobylinski, African researcher Massamba Sylla and CSU microbiologist Brian Foy pause during mosquito collection in Senegal.
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Brian Foy aspirates malaria-causing mosquitoes inside a villager's home in Ibel, Senegal. Only female Anopheles mosquitoes transmit malaria; they pick up a parasite called a plasmodium from infected people when they bite to obtain blood needed to nurture their eggs.