LatinNews Daily - 18 February 2016

Brazil: On 16 February Brazil’s health ministry announced that a team from the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had arrived in Brazil to begin collaborating with local scientists on a control study on microcephaly, as part of efforts to understand any link to the Zika virus. According to Brazil’s government news agency Agência Brasil (ABR), “the study aims to estimate the proportion of newborns with microcephaly associated with Zika and the risks brought about by the infection”. The research will be conducted in Paraíba state and is expected to involve 17 CDC technical experts, plus nine from Brazil’s health ministry, as well as state government specialists.

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