Brazil warns against pregnancy due to spreading virus
Rio de Janeiro (CNN)Brazilian health officials are dishing out some unusual advice these days: Don't get pregnant.
That's
the message for would-be parents, especially in the country's
northeast, after officials linked a mosquito-borne virus called Zika to a
surge in newborn microcephaly, a neurological disorder that can result in incomplete brain development.
"It's
a very personal decision, but at this moment of uncertainty, if
families can put off their pregnancy plans, that's what we're
recommending," Angela Rocha, the pediatric infectologist at Oswaldo Cruz
Hospital in Brazil's hardest-hit state, told CNN.
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