Health authorities previously downplayed the risk of the Zika virus to women in the United States, but experts are now predicting that mosquitoes carrying the disease will likely touch down in the southern region of the United States in the coming months.

Texas and Florida are the states facing the greatest risk, because of the climates in parts of both states, as well as their large populations.

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