Colombia declares end to Zika epidemic inside country - Reuters

Colombian health officials declared on Monday that the worst of a Zika outbreak in the Andean nation had passed just 10 months after its arrival, raising questions about how the virus is affecting parts of Latin America differently.

Vice Health Minister Fernando Ruiz told journalists that the number of infections in Colombia has been falling by 600 cases a week. While Zika is still circulating in the country, Colombia considers the drop-off sufficient to say it has moved into an endemic phase from the epidemic phase.

"We can declare that the epidemic is ended. Colombia is the first country on the American continent to declare an end to the epidemic," Ruiz said.

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