At the end of October 2015, the Brazilian state of Pernambuco, located in the northeast of the country, started reporting a dramatic increase in the number of babies born with microcephaly, a condition characterized by a shrunken head and brain. The cases in Pernambuco were soon followed by similar ones in the nearby states of Bahía and
Is Microcephaly In Children Caused By The Zika Virus Or By Pesticides?
Toxic pesticides are used extensively in Brazil’s north-east, where almost a third of cases of microcephaly have occurred so far.