In trying to fifteen a mysterious virus swept through south america any news they talked about this week a virus sick it left a trail of babies born with brain damage and scold a form a tease but when we saw what the virus could do we were alone. This is the story behind the headlines yesterday an army of scientists set out to combat the virus. At the beginning of twenty fifteen dock. Youre patricio but as those clinic in Rio De Janeiro began to fill with women reporting curious symptoms. They didnt look as if they were seriously ill just had waned she had are so much whale sick they mainly had an h e rash because of a wound. Dr brazils patients all lived in rio shantytowns the favelas. Among them a land of capita who was nineteen at the time. A lot i had a mild barely visible rash the redness went away after a few days. It was hard to work out the symptoms and the diagnosis. Soon fowles ins of new cases were being reported throughout brazil leaving doctors baffled. Until they conducte
weeks of the first of the trimester there is a big risk that the brain will not develop properly as it will be. when a baby s head is of the normal size is because the brain develops and pushes up the skull and you have the normal contour of the skull if there s anything that interferes with the destroys that process the brain doesn t develop right in the skull becomes small and. the growing number of babies with microcephaly paralleled the increase in zeek infections but was the condition actually due to the virus. panic spread among pregnant women in rio including dr patricio brazils patients. came couple seventy of them i was very worried about the pregnant women who came to the surgery were very afraid they were who wanted by the specter of microcephaly