Law360, New York (February 19, 2016, 10:46 AM EST) -- The Zika virus is the latest source of sleepless nights for public health officials, but it is also starting to take its emotional toll on U.S. employers. Reports of children born with microcephaly and an uptick in reported cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome, which can cause numbness, nerve damage, paralysis and sometimes death in affected patients, are raising fears for many companies with cross-border operations that employees traveling to areas where an outbreak is occurring may come back affected by the rapidly spreading Zika virus. In this climate where headlines may stoke disproportionate fears of a pandemic, employers must remember to disseminate factual information to employees and refrain from overreacting....