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Brazil: Most Confirmed Microcephaly Cases Probably Tied to Zika

Brazil's Health Ministry said Wednesday that most of the 508 confirmed cases of microcephaly reported in the country were most likely related to Zika virus outbreak, and it called its previous count too conservative. Earlier in the day, the ministry reported 4,443 suspected and confirmed cases of the rare defect, up from 4,314 a week earlier. It did not, however, update its total of 41 cases in which it said that microcephaly had been linked by laboratory tests to Zika...

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