[Media Watch] An anthropological view on the emerging threat of Zika virus

Since 2015, there has been a flood of both scientific and lay papers on Zika virus and the harm it might inflict on unborn children of infected mothers in the form of microcephaly and other severe brain defects. What we hear less about are the lives and experiences of the people at the centre of the epidemic that hit Brazil in September, 2015: a wave that started with mere rumours of babies born with small heads in the country's northeast region that rapidly snowballed into the formal declaration of a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by WHO in February, 2016.
Source: The Lancet Infectious Diseases - Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Tags: Media Watch Source Type: research