Rio de Janeiro: In 33 years of practice, Rio de Janeiro obstetrician and gynaecologist Isabella Tartari Proenca has helped countless expectant mothers through the anxieties of pregnancy and childbirth. But ever since an exotic virus called Zika hit Brazil a few months ago, she's run out of assurances. "I get calls and text messages all day long," Dr Proenca said. "My patients are terrified." Who could blame them? Since May, when the national health ministry confirmed the first cases of Zika virus, the mosquito- borne disease has swept the country, infecting at least half a million people. While most victims escape with a low-grade fever, skin rashes and achy joints, some...
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