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EPISODE · Aug 30, 2023 · 26 MIN

What happened to babies with Zika virus

from Health Check · host BBC World Service

In March 2015, Brazil reported a large outbreak of the Zika virus infection. Over the next year, the disease became a global medical emergency. Thousands of babies were born brain-damaged, after their mothers became infected while pregnant.As the World Health Organisation discusses the current global Zika situation and the lessons learned from the outbreak, Claudia Hammond is joined by Dr Graham Easton to hear from the families affected in Brazil and ask what life is now like for the babies who were born with complications.We also hear about new recommendations for how communities around the world can better prevent Sudden Cardiac Death, as well as research on whether how far away you are from a defibrillator is related to how deprived your area is.Claudia speaks to a psychiatric nurse and the woman who says she saved her life by going above and beyond the call of duty.And we hear about the world first from Australia, where scientists discovered a living worm in the brain of a woman who’d been experiencing stomach pain and night sweats.Image Credit: Joao Paulo BuriniPresenter: Claudia Hammond Producer: Dan Welsh

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