Brazil's Rousseff declares war on mosquito spreading Zika virus


  • World
  • Thursday, 28 Jan 2016

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - President Dilma Rousseff said on Wednesday that Brazil must wage war against the Aedes aegypti mosquito that spreads the Zika virus linked to a surge in cases of a dangerous birth defect, focusing on eliminating the insect's breeding grounds.

Since September, Brazil has registered 3,700 cases of babies with microcephaly, a condition linked to Zika infection in which children are born with an abnormally small head and a brain that has not developed properly.

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