Fear is spread amongst the cities in Brazil as pregnant women afraid of Zika Virus, a mosquito-borne virus first detected in the Americas last year.
Scientists claim that, four-fifths of cases, Zika causes no noticeable symptoms so women have no idea if they contracted it during pregnancy. Test kits for the virus are only effective in the first week of infection and only available at private clinics at a cost of 900 reais, of a monthly minimum wage.
Dozens of mothers each day wait for ultrasound scans that will indicate whether the child they are carrying has a shrunken head and damaged brain caused by the Zika Virus.
The fear is spread also by the increased incidents and the images of babies with birth defects that have made many women cautious even to get pregnant, while the doctors afraid of an increase in dangerous clandestine abortions in the majority-Catholic country.
Source: Reuters
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