Babies with microcephaly in Brazil are struggling to access care
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Babies with microcephaly in Brazil are struggling to access care.
One year after the BrazilianMinistry of Health declared a public health emergency because of the large rise in the number of children bornwithmicrocephaly, those children are experiencing difficulties in accessing care. The first of these children are now a year old, but most cannot crawl, walk, sit unaided, or hold objects. Many have severe visual and hearing deficiencies and malformations in ...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1756-1833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.i6157