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Three-month-old Jesus, photographed on Oct. 5 in Guarenas, Venezuela, was born with microcephaly
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Zika’s million-dollar question: Where are the birth defects?
Health centers in New York are providing information about the Zika virus to New Yorkers traveling home to the Dominican Republic. People who've traveled to the DR represent more than half of the Zika cases in New York.
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Dominicans in New York are planning summer visits home. That means Zika planning.
Therapist Rozely Fontoura holds Juan Pedro, a baby with microcephaly, in Recife, Brazil on March 26.
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Zika is spreading. Birth defects aren’t — yet
Ianka Mikaelle Barbosa, 18, with Sophia, 18 days old, who was born with microcephaly, at her home in Campina Grande, Brazil.
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A new bill aims to make Brazil’s abortion law even tougher
Looking at male mosquitos in Tetiaroa.
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What you need to know about the Zika virus
Nadja Cristina Gomes Bezerra
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Brazil’s microcephaly outbreak captured in portraits
Germana Soares is shown holding her child next to a doctor holding a black and white striped card.
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‘We have a child with microcephaly, and we’re happy’
A baby born with microcephaly reacts to stimulus during an evaluation session with a physiotherapist at the Altino Ventura rehabilitation center in Recife, Brazil on January 28, 2016.
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We’re not sure if Zika is causing all those microcephaly cases. But there’s no evidence it’s pesticides.
A scientist displays Aedes aegypti mosquitoes inside the International Atomic Energy Agency's insect pest control laboratory, Austria.
Medicine
Quiz: How much do you actually know about the Zika virus?
Dr. Natalia Brin examines a 2-month-old with suspected microcephaly in Brazil.
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A new link between Zika and microcephaly is found in Brazil
The Hartley family. (Left to right) Gwen holding Claire (age 14); Cal (age 17); Scott holding Lola (age 9); and their two whippets, Romeo and Cash.
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These children with microcephaly are a source of inspiration
A baby born with microcephaly reacts to stimulus during an evaluation session with a physiotherapist at the Altino Ventura rehabilitation center in Recife, Brazil on January 28, 2016.
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The sketchy numbers behind Brazil’s Zika crisis