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Airlines letting crews opt out of flights to Zika virus areas

Posted online February 4, 2016 | 12:42 pm

United Airlines and Delta Airlines are letting pregnant flight attendants and pilots and any trying to become pregnant opt out of flights to regions affected by the Zika virus.

The routes impacted are to Latin America and the Caribbean.

Zika, which is transmitted mainly by mosquitoes, has been linked to birth defects in Brazil.

Read more from CBS News.

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