Australia captain Steven Smith and his group have been cautioned about dangers connected with the Zika infection in front of their voyage through the West Indies one month from now.
Australia will play West Indies and South Africa in a triangular one-day universal competition in St Kitts and Nevis, Barbados and Guyana from June 5.
A modest bunch of instances of Zika – a mosquito-borne infection known not the birth abandon microcephaly – have been recorded in Guyana, on South America's north drift.
Cricket Australia boss medicinal officer John Orchard said the players had been advised on the best way to abstain from being chomped by mosquitoes and helped to remember "safe-sex hones".
Zika is spread essentially by mosquitoes yet can likewise be transmitted sexually, inciting the Australian Olympic Committee to give 'Zika-confirmation' condoms to competitors making a beeline for the Rio de Janeiro Games in August.
An episode of the illness in Puerto Rico brought on two Major League Baseball games to be moved from the Caribbean island to Miami in the not so distant future.
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