How Much of a Threat is the Zika Virus?

An Aedes Aegypti mosquito is photographed on human skin in a lab of the International Training and Medical Research Training Center (CIDEIM) on January 25, 2016, in Cali, Colombia.

Zika became a cause for global concern in last year when previously-infected women started giving birth to babies with microcephaly. New York Times science reporter Donald G. McNeil Jr. joins us to discuss his book, Zika: The Emerging Epidemic, which assesses the danger posed by the virus as North America enters its first summer since the Zika-microcephaly link was established.