microcephaly

Since the attribution to the formerly harmless virus Zika of a cluster of cases in northeastern Brazil of the devastating birth defect microcephaly, the mainstream media have been dominated by fear of a Zika pandemic. Meanwhile, the real culprit(s) behind the surge in microcephaly in that corner of Brazil have been ignored, with the exception of a few scientists, and even fewer journalists.

If the outbreaks subsided on their own, why did the WHO use scare tactics to broadcast the non-emergency to the press? Money.

Peter Piot and his peers co-discovered Ebola in 1976. We speak with the pandemic expert about the global health community’s response to Zika.

Teams of U.S. and Brazilian health workers ventured into dicey slums, fought through snarled traffic and braved torrential downpours on the first day of their effort to determine if the Zika virus is causing babies to be born with a birth defect affecting the brain

A 16-member team from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) kicked off work Monday on a study to help determine whether the Zika virus really does cause babies to be born with the devastating birth defect microcephaly, as Brazilian researchers strongly suspect.