Brenda Pereira holds her four-month-old baby Maria Fernanda as they wait for medical exams at the State Brain Institute in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Photo: AFP
Brazil’s 2015-2016 zika scare has largely dropped out of the headlines, but one year on, thousands of parents are struggling as they learn to care for brain-damaged babies.
Brenda Pereira, 23, weeps in dismay as she leaves the doctor’s room with her four-month-old daughter Maria Fernanda in her arms. The paediatrician has just told her that Maria Fernanda’s case of microcephaly is worse than previously thought.
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