"She will not walk," a doctor told Ana Carolina Caceres' mother on the day she was born. "She will not talk and, over time, she will enter a vegetative state until she dies." But the doctor was wrong, Caceres wrote in an essay for the BBC. The Brazilian journalist has lived with microcephaly, the often-devastating birth defect linked to the Zika virus, for 24 years. She does more than walk and talk; she attended university, she wrote a book, she keeps a blog. And although she endured breathing problems, seizures and a series of intensive medical interventions - five operations, 12 years of taking medication - she resents the idea that she, and other children like her, are...
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