According to CCTV,Cape Verde has dismissed a travel alert issued by the US government over zika virus,saying the concerns were overblown and that the number of cases of the virus in the country was on the decline.The US Cerntre for Disease Control {CDC} extended its travel warning on friday to a futher eight countries,including Cape Verde,that pse a risk of infection with zika ,bringing the total number to 22.The virus zika is a mosquito borne virus spreading through the Caribbean and Latin America.Only about 20 percent of the infected cases display'' symptoms which are usually mild and include fever,join and conjunctivitis.The CDC warns that it can also be spread from pregnant women to foetuses and has been linked to a birth defect called microcephaly,in which babies are born with abnormally small heads and sometimes brain damage.Jorge Barreto,the representatives for Cape Verde's National Directorate of Health,said the warning did not constitute a travel ban but was intend...