Zika may have led to fewer babies in Rio

• Autores: Chris Baraniuk
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3123, 2017, pág. 9
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Brazil's Zika outbreak may have prompted a drop in the number of live births in Rio de Janeiro in late 2016. Between Oct 2015 and Jan 2016, roughly 4,000 babies were born in Brazil with microcephaly--abnormally small heads, a condition linked to infection with the Zika virus during pregnancy. In June, the World Health Organization recommended that women in affected areas delay getting pregnant to avoid the risk of having babies with birth detect. Last month, Marcia Castro at Harvard University presented evidence that this warning didn't have a widespread impact on birth rates in Brazil last year. But new figures from Rio de Janeiro's Municipal Health Secretariat suggest the birth rate may have declined in the city during the second halt of 2016.