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...