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
decision to mass produce a vaccine depended on the scale of the epidemic. by the middle of twenty seventeen zico have managed to cross the atlantic to keep verd near the densely populated coast of africa the continent where the virus had first been found. will it produce an epidemic in africa. that s a question being investigated by dr sater salinas she believes the answer lies in the past several decades ago after zico was identified in uganda. but why were there never any cases of microcephaly here. in the u.k. strong trace on fixing someone s theory is that the brazilians e.q. virus developed from the original african strain and became more aggressive on