Alert to gals: Keep Zika off your itinerary

CITY HEALTH officials have a message for women who are pregnant or trying to conceive: Avoid Zika-prone countries.

As New Yorkers plan their summer vacations, city health officials are warning that just about every country in the Caribbean and Central and South America remains a Zika infection zone.

“If you’re pregnant, you should not travel where there is Zika,” said Dr. Mary Bassett, the city’s health commissioner, during a press conference Thursday at the Urban Health Plan in the Bronx. “There are islands here you can travel to, but it should not be to the Caribbean islands.”

Virtually every Zika diagnosis in New York was a result of someone who traveled to a danger area, she said. So far, 1,067 New Yorkers — 402 of them pregnant — have tested positive for the Zika virus.

To date, 32 babies have been born with the virus, and 16 will suffer from severe lifelong birth defects, Bassett said.

As part of an $833,000 campaign to warn New Yorkers, city officials will post travel warning signs on subways, TV, newspapers and online.