Camile Vitoria embraces her brother Matheus, who has microcephaly, in Recife, Brazil, on Jan. 27. Health authorities in Pernambuco, the Brazilian state at the center of a rapidly spreading Zika outbreak, have been overwhelmed by the alarming surge in cases of babies born with microcephaly, a neurological disorder associated to the mosquito-borne virus.
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A Guillain-Barre syndrome patient recovers in the neurology ward at the Rosales National Hospital in San Salvador, El Salvador, on Jan. 27. The hospital reported an increase of Guillain-Barre syndrome cases since September 2015. Of the 85 patients attended to, one out of three tested positive to Zika virus, according to the hospital.
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The larvae of Aedes aegypti mosquito are seen inside the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) laboratory in Recife, Brazil, on Jan. 27.
Army soldiers apply insect repellent on Jan. 20 as they prepare for a cleanup operation against the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which is a vector for transmitting the Zika virus, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. A U.S. warning urging pregnant women to avoid travel to Latin American countries where the mosquito-borne virus is multiplying threatens to depress tourism to the region, one of its few bright spots at a time of deep economic pain.
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City workers fumigate the Centro America neighborhood in San Salvador, El Salvador, as part of preventive measures against the Zika virus and other mosquito-borne diseases on Jan 27.
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An Aedes aegypti mosquito is seen through a microscope at en exhibition on dengue fever on Jan. 28 in Recife, Brazil. The mosquito transmits the Zika virus, as well as dengue. In the last four months, authorities have recorded close to 4,000 cases in Brazil in which the mosquito-borne Zika virus may have led to microcephaly in infants. The ailment results in an abnormally small head in newborns and is associated with various disorders including decreased brain development. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the Zika virus outbreak is likely to spread throughout nearly all the Americas.
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Child Neurologist Vanessa Van Der Linden observes the X-ray of a baby’s skull with microcephaly at the hospital Barao de Lucena in Recife, Brazil, on Jan. 26.
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David Henrique Ferreira (L), 5 months, who has microcephaly, is watched by his brother Richard Miguel on Jan. 25 in Recife, Brazil.
The forearm of a public health technician is seen covered with sterile female Aedes aegypti mosquitos after leaving a recipient to cultivate larvae, in a research area to prevent the spread of Zika virus and other mosquito-borne diseases, at the entomology department of the Ministry of Public Health, in Guatemala City on Jan. 26.
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