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On the frontline of Brazils war with Zika, a mothers first question: How big is the head?
2016-04-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: It's 7:30 a.m. and the hallway outside the neurosurgeon's office at the Pedro I Municipal Hospital is filling with mothers and their babies. The women arrive with questions: Will their children ever learn to walk? Will they ever speak? The doctor, Alba Batista, wishes she had answers. She used to see two, maybe three cases of microcephaly a year. But since December, more than 40 newborns with the condition -- an abnormally small skull, often with an underdeveloped brain -- have shown up...
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