Zika: Raising a child with microcephaly

Women in Brazil were told to avoid getting pregnant when the Zika epidemic struck in 2015/16 because of the link with babies born with heads smaller than usual – or microcephaly. The number of Zika cases has now dropped dramatically – but now a new study in the United States highlights that some affected children in places like Puerto Rico have continued to develop problems with their brains and eyesight. BBC Brazil’s correspondent Julia Carneiro has been to Recife, the Brazilian city that saw the highest number of cases, to see how the affected families are coping.

(Image: Ana Katrielle, with her mother Ana Paula who contracted Zika virus during her pregnancy, and her older brother, Credit: Fernando Cavalcanti.)