Zika Freeze: Fertility Specialist Sees Zika-Related Uptick

Zika Freeze: Fertility Specialist Sees Zika-Related Uptick
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The number of locally-acquired Zika cases keeps rising in South Florida, and that means hard conversations between doctors and patients who want to get pregnant.

About four, five months ago, Dr. Armando Hernandez-Rey noticed his fertility clinic in Coral Gables was getting an unusual jump in business.

“I started getting an initial wave of patients requesting egg freezing, sperm freezing, or just going thru in vitro to freeze embryos, who were in Brazil, who were in Bolivia, who were in Ecuador,” Hernandez-Rey said.

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