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Apparently, Brazil has had a large increase in microcephaly recently. Blamed it on the Zika virus. Some 4000 cases this year. However, when the actual cases were investigated, about 1500 so far, only 400 or so were actually microcephaly, and of those only 17 tested positive for the virus. To top it all off, the government investigators stated the test for the virus was not really that good, so who knows. But it gives us something else to talk about instead of e-mails and mean tweets.
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Apparently, Brazil has had a large increase in microcephaly recently. Blamed it on the Zika virus. Some 4000 cases this year. However, when the actual cases were investigated, about 1500 so far, only 400 or so were actually microcephaly, and of those only 17 tested positive for the virus. To top it all off, the government investigators stated the test for the virus was not really that good, so who knows. But it gives us something else to talk about instead of e-mails and mean tweets.