bdmetronews desk ॥ A pregnant 17-year-old from Connecticut has tested positive for the Zika virus, telling ABC News the news is “heartbreaking,” as scientists continue to study the link between the Zika virus and severe birth defects.
Sara Mujica said she believes she was infected in February while visiting her fiance in Honduras. She started showing symptoms of the virus just days after learning she was pregnant.
“I had a fever,” she told ABC News. “And the rashes were just growing throughout my body.”
Fever and rashes are two of Zika’s most common signs and symptoms.
Mujica then traveled to Connecticut and rushed to get tested. With the results weeks away, she went back to Honduras to be with her fiance.
Then, her mother called “crying hysterically,” Mujica told ABC News. “She was like, ‘your blood work got back and you were positive for Zika.'”
“It’s really heartbreaking knowing that I got Zika,” she said.
“It was such hard news to take in all at once,” she said. “My first thought was, ‘What am I going to do?’ And I asked my mom, ‘What am I going to do?’ I still don’t know if I should do an abortion or take what God gave me.
