"The World Health Organization designated the Zika virus and its suspected complications in newborns as a public health emergency of international concern Monday. The action, which the international body has taken only three times before, paves the way for the mobilization of more funding and manpower to fight the mosquito-born pathogen spreading "explosively" through the Americas." Click here to read the entire article by Ariana Eunjung Cha, Lena H. Sun, and Brady Dennis, The Washington Post.