The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday issued a travel warning for the Caribbean region where infection with Zika, a mosquito-borne virus, is a risk.
The CDC also cautioned pregnant women not to travel to those areas as zika has been linked to a serious birth defect.
The travel alert applies to Colombia, French Guiana, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Martinique, Mexico, Panama, Puerto Rico, Suriname and Venezuela, among other Caribbean and South American countries and territories.
The first local transmission of Zika virus infection was reported in the Caribbean in December 2015.
Barbados recently confirmed three recorded cases of the virus, according to an official from the ministry of health.
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