Can Zika Account for the Missing Babies?

The Zika virus (ZIKV) spread rapidly in Brazil in 2015 and 2016. Rio de Janeiro was among the Brazilian cities which were hit the hardest, with more that a hundred thousand confirmed cases up to the end of 2016. Given the severity of the neurological damage caused by ZIKV on fetuses, we wondered whe...

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Main Authors: Flávio Codeço Coelho, Margaret Armstrong, Valeria Saraceni, Cristina Lemos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Public Health
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpubh.2017.00317/full