The Zika virus
has rapidly gained notoriety in past weeks, and for good reason.
The outbreak, which began in Brazil in May 2015, has
subsequently spread to 21 countries and territories and counting. The virus
usually just causes mild, non-fatal symptoms in those it infects directly, but
the really alarming development is the suspected link between Zika and
microcephaly, a birth defect Brazil has noticed increasing in its newborns—more
than 4,000 since October.
Read Flannery Keck’s Citizens’
Climate Lobby story - “The Zika virus: One more symptom of a sick climate.”
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