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Zika virus alert

Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, a Zika vector
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Brazilian women are being urged not to fall pregnant because of the spreading of the mosquito-borne Zika virus. In fact this virus is suspected of being behind an unusually high number of brain-damaged newborns. Andrea Ciacchi is our correspondent from Brazil.


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Brazilian women are being urged not to fall pregnant because of the spreading of the mosquito-borne Zika virus. In fact this virus is suspected of being behind an unusually high number of brain-damaged newborns. Andrea Ciacchi is our correspondent from Brazil.



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