A student at Virginia's College of William and Mary contracted Zika virus following a winter break trip to Central America, school officials reported this weekend. The school said that it consulted with its health and wellness team and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and believes that the student, who is not showing any symptoms, will recover. There is "believed to be no health risk to anyone on campus," the college said in a statement.
The mosquito-borne virus is spreading rapidly throughout the Americas and has been linked to thousands of cases of brain damage in babies in Brazil.
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