Families Face Challenges To Provide Care For Brazil's Zika Babies

RECIFE, BRAZIL - DECEMBER 18: Ryquelme Kauan, who was born with microcephaly, is carried by his mother Avila before the start of his one year birthday party at their house on December 18, 2016 in Recife Brazil. RyquelmeÕs actually birthday was December 13 but the family held the party today. His mother does not know whether she was infected with Zika during her pregnancy. As many of the babies born with microcephaly, believed to be linked to the Zika virus, turn one year old in Recife, doctors and mothers are adapting and learning treatments to assist and calm the children. Many suffer a plethora of difficulties including vision and hearing problems with doctors now labeling the overall condition as Ôcongenital Zika syndromeÕ. Authorities have recorded thousands of cases in Brazil in which the mosquito-borne Zika virus may have led to microcephaly in infants. Microcephaly results in an abnormally small head in newborns and is associated with various disorders. The state with the most cases is Pernambuco, whose capital is Recife. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
RECIFE, BRAZIL - DECEMBER 18: Ryquelme Kauan, who was born with microcephaly, is carried by his mother Avila before the start of his one year birthday party at their house on December 18, 2016 in Recife Brazil. RyquelmeÕs actually birthday was December 13 but the family held the party today. His mother does not know whether she was infected with Zika during her pregnancy. As many of the babies born with microcephaly, believed to be linked to the Zika virus, turn one year old in Recife, doctors and mothers are adapting and learning treatments to assist and calm the children. Many suffer a plethora of difficulties including vision and hearing problems with doctors now labeling the overall condition as Ôcongenital Zika syndromeÕ. Authorities have recorded thousands of cases in Brazil in which the mosquito-borne Zika virus may have led to microcephaly in infants. Microcephaly results in an abnormally small head in newborns and is associated with various disorders. The state with the most cases is Pernambuco, whose capital is Recife. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
Families Face Challenges To Provide Care For Brazil's Zika Babies
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