French Polynesia

(Newser) - France conducted almost 200 nuclear tests in French Polynesia between 1966 and 1996 and a close look at just three of them reveals that the impact on the local population was far more devastating than the country has admitted, according to a new study. Researchers say fallout from the atmospheric...

(Newser) - A new study on the Zika virus may or may not allay pregnant women's fears: Researchers in French Polynesia have strengthened the link between Zika and microcephaly, though they say just one in 100 pregnant women infected in the first trimester of pregnancy developed a fetus with an abnormally...

(Newser) - Before the current Zika outbreak in Latin America (particularly Brazil ) and the Caribbean, the mosquito-borne virus suspected to cause birth defects and other complications showed up in French Polynesia. Some 20,000 people living on the group of islands in the South Pacific are believed to have been infected...

(Newser) - With Dubai in dire straits, where will jet-setters go now? The Frisky knows. See full details here .

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