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This is heartbreaking.
No vaccine.
No cure.
If a pregnant woman is bitten by the Aedes mosquito (which can carry Zika virus) her baby may be born with microcephaly, a neurodevelopmental disorder, causing the skull and brain to be small and undeveloped.
"There have been around 3,500 reported cases of microcephaly - babies born with tiny brains - in Brazil alone since October." Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-35399403
Regions of the most-affected countries are even advising women to not get pregnant.
The virus has spread to most of South and Central America and Mexico.
USA appears to be next.

No vaccine.
No cure.
If a pregnant woman is bitten by the Aedes mosquito (which can carry Zika virus) her baby may be born with microcephaly, a neurodevelopmental disorder, causing the skull and brain to be small and undeveloped.
"There have been around 3,500 reported cases of microcephaly - babies born with tiny brains - in Brazil alone since October." Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-35399403
Regions of the most-affected countries are even advising women to not get pregnant.
The virus has spread to most of South and Central America and Mexico.
USA appears to be next.
