The Intern Diaries: Love in the Time of Zika

What is it like to live in fear of a mosquito? Amos Roberts explains the challenges of covering the Zika virus outbreak in Brazil in the latest of our Intern Diaries podcasts.

Amos films mothers learning how to stimulate their babies’ hearing – they’re taught that early stimulation of the senses is vital. Source: SBS Dateline

Each week, one of Dateline’s interns goes behind the scenes to explore the trials and triumphs of each story and what it takes to get it on air.  

Amos tells Amanda Copp the surprising reason the Zika virus is so frightening and how he found a teenage girl willing to adopt a baby with microcephaly.

If you missed Dateline's story, watch it here in full: