It's official. Two weeks after announcing that the Ebola crisis in West Africa was over, the World Health Organization declared the Zika virus a global emergency.

That's according to the World Health Organization, which on Monday called for a "coordinated international response" to the disease, which is spread by mosquitoes to pregnant women and has already led to thousands of birth defects in Brazil.

"I am now declaring that the recent cluster of microcephaly and other neurological abnormalities reported in Latin America following a similar cluster in French Polynesia in 2014 constitutes a public health emergency of international concern," announced WHO director general Margaret Chan.

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