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Zika-affected babies show severe health, developmental issues two years later

A new study confirms some of the worst fears about the challenges babies born with Zika will likely face.
A woman in Brazil's Paraiba state holds her twin granddaughters, both of whom were born with microcephaly.

Two years ago at this time, heart-stopping pictures of infants with shrunken heads began appear in the news. The world met the Zika babies of Brazil.

But what has happened to those children whose life trajectories were altered when Zika-infected mosquitoes bit their pregnant mothers? A new report paints a bleak picture, one

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