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Katie Aslesen should be dipping her toes in the crystal clear waters of Cozumel island.
Instead, the four-months pregnant Minnesota native and her husband traded their Caribbean Sea babymoon -- a vacation for parents-to-be -- for Cocoa Beach, Florida. They made the last-minute switch to escape possible exposure to the mosquito-borne Zika virus spreading across the Americas. Zika may cause babies to be born with microcephaly, a birth defect that causes brain damage and abnormally small heads.