More than one in five people living in Puerto Rico will become infected with
Zika virus, experts today warned.
As the virus sweeps through the Americas, Puerto Rico has become America's front line in the battle against the disease.
Home to 3.5 million US citizens, the territory has a tropical landscape that provides an ideal breeding ground for the Aedes mosquito that spreads Zika.
Officials have barred local blood donations, ramped up efforts to eradicate the Aedes aegypti mosquito and are trying to monitor every pregnant woman on the island due to fears the virus increases the risk of birth defects.
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