Las Vegas Sun

April 23, 2024

Guadalupe Urquilla, who is pregnant, gives her daughter Alejandra, 2, a mosquito zapper Jan. 29, 2016, in their home in San Salvador, El Salvador. As the Zika virus spreads through the hemisphere, authorities in El Salvador have urged women to put off pregnancy for two years. In the meantime, Urquilla has traded her dresses for long pants and closed shoes, scrubs out the family's concrete water tank every three days and writes San Salvador city officials ceaselessly, demanding that they fumigate the trash- and debris-strewn public housing complex where she lives with her husband and daughter.

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Guadalupe Urquilla, who is pregnant, gives her daughter Alejandra, 2, a mosquito zapper Jan. 29, 2016, in their home in San Salvador, El Salvador. As the Zika virus spreads through the hemisphere, authorities in El Salvador have urged women to put off pregnancy for two years. In the meantime, Urquilla has traded her dresses for long pants and closed shoes, scrubs out the family's concrete water tank every three days and writes San Salvador city officials ceaselessly, demanding that they fumigate the trash- and debris-strewn public housing complex where she lives with her husband and daughter.