These Zika Mothers Went to Battle — and Their Cry Was Heard

These Zika mothers went to battle — and their cry was heard

After the Zika outbreak ended in Brazil, many families faced a new reality: a child whose life was irrevocably altered after the mother contracted the virus while pregnant. Here's what happened next.(Image credit: Ian Cheibub for NPR)

The Zika Scare That Turned Out to Be a False Positive Debacle – a...

The human cost of this prolonged fiction is measured not in disability-adjusted life years of uncertain provenance, but in the children never conceived, the young families who postponed dreams, and the enduring chill on Northeast Brazil’s economy and demography. It is time for high-impact journals to stop lending authority to a construct that has failed every predictive test. Congenital Zika Syndrome should be retired to the history of medical o…

These Zika mothers went to battle -- and their cry was heard

Ruty Pereira sits with her daughter, Tamara, in their apartment in Maceió, in eastern Brazil. Tamara, whose development was impacted in utero by the Zika virus, eats through a feeding tube.(Ian Cheibub for NPR)It's a bright Thursday morning in Maceió, in eastern Brazil. Ruty Pereira has no shortage of tasks to keep her busy at home. But here she is, seated in the front row of a meeting at her local community center. Paintings of balloons and clo…