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Zika has been linked to rising numbers of microcephaly, a birth defect where a baby's head is abnormally small. Current tests for the mosquito borne virus can take days, but now scientists in the United States and Canada have developed a quicker and cheaper test. Newsday's Nkem Ifejika spoke to the co-author of the study, Professor Alexander Green of the School of Molecular Sciences at Arizona State University.

(Picture: generic photo of test tube with blood to be tested. Credit: Thinkstock)