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Caught off-guard by Zika, Brazil struggles with deformed babies
By Anthony Boadle RECIFE, Brazil (Reuters) – Angela Rocha, a pediatrician in northeastern Brazil, measures the head of a child born with microcephaly, a tragic neurological complication linked to Zika, the mosquito-borne virus sparking a health scare across the Americas. More than 1,000 cases of microcephaly have been reported in just a few months in…