GHOUYMAN, South Sudan — The canoe was not big enough to carry them all. Peter Met Biel Luak, his wife, her mother and his 10 children needed to travel through the swamp to escape. Some had to swim or walk through chest-deep water. They had no food, no blankets, no mosquito nets. “I left nothing […]
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For months, health officials have been racing to answer a fundamental question about Brazil’s mysterious upswing in microcephaly cases: Is the birth defect being caused by the mosquito-borne Zika virus? If so, does every pregnant woman infected with Zika pass the virus to her unborn child? And does every fetus infected with Zika wind up with […]
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Over the past five years, at least 162 abortion providers have either shut down or stopped offering the procedure altogether. In at least five states, just one abortion clinic remains open. This new reality is the result of a drive in state capitals across the nation to more tightly regulate abortion. From 2011 to 2014, […]
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In Babies With Microcephaly, Unique Damage Wreaked By Zika
by PBS June 8, 2016From the outside, babies born with microcephaly all have the telltale features: Doll-sized heads on human-sized bodies, their foreheads sloped precipitously away from their faces. But on the inside, the babies’ brains can differ dramatically depending on what specifically has caused their damage. And the injury caused by Zika is unique enough that doctors believe […]
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(Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket via Getty Images) A little more than a year ago, the White House set an ambitious new goal for…
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A culex mosquito pictured at the Arizona Department of Health Services laboratory in 2004. (Jeff Topping/Getty Images) One of the most common…
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The Supreme Court building at sunset on Feb. 13, 2016. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick) Over the past five years, at least 162 abortion…