WHO Director: Zika Menace Likely to Get Worse Before It's Stopped

Fear of the Zika virus is intense in Brazil because of its apparent link to a birth defect. After a fact-finding mission in Brazil, Dr. Margaret Chan, who heads the World Health Organization, said the situation "can get worse before it gets better." Chan called the Zika virus a much bigger menace than the Ebola epidemic in West Africa that killed more than 11,000 people, given the magnitude of Zika's spread and its possible link to microcephaly, a birth defect involving...

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