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  • Carnival roars ahead in Brazil despite Zika health scare

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    The worst health scare in recent history is not keeping Brazilians from their annual Carnival revelry, with millions of partiers swarming streets and some making fun of the mosquito that spreads Zika and other viruses. “It's one more thing to worry about,” said Juliana Araujo, a 48-year-old schoolteacher at a street party in Rio de…

  • Carnival roars ahead in Brazil despite Zika health scare

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    The worst health scare in recent history is not keeping Brazilians from their annual Carnival revelry, with millions of partiers swarming streets and some making fun of the mosquito that spreads Zika and other viruses. “It's one more thing to worry about,” said Juliana Araujo, a 48-year-old schoolteacher at a street party in Rio de…

  • Doctors puzzle over severity of defects in some Brazilian babies

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    By Bill Berkrot and Anthony Boadle NEW YORK/BRASILIA (Reuters) – Experts on microcephaly, the birth defect that has sparked alarm in the current Zika virus outbreak, say they are struck by the severity of a small number of cases they have reviewed from Brazil. Consultations among doctors in Brazil and the United States have increased…