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Health centers in New York are providing information about the Zika virus to New Yorkers traveling home to the Dominican Republic. People who've traveled to the DR represent more than half of the Zika cases in New York.

Dominicans in New York are planning summer visits home. That means Zika planning.

July 28, 2016Health

New York health clinics are urging Dominicans in New Yorker who are going home for the summer to take precautions against the Zika virus.

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