More than half of young Brazilian women have shunned pregnancy over fears of Zika, which can cause birth defects.
The report in the US journal Science explains for the first time how this once relatively harmless virus transformed into a global health threat. (Photo: AP)
Paris: More than half of young Brazilian women have shunned pregnancy over fears of Zika, which can cause birth defects, according to a report released on Friday. In a national survey in June of more than 2,000 literate women in Brazil aged 18 to 39, 56 per cent said they had “avoided, or tried to avoid pregnancy” due to the virus, according to an article in the medical journal BMJ.
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