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dixiegrrrrl

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7. Well, there IS this, from the article:
Sat Feb 13, 2016, 04:26 PM
Feb 2016
“Previous Zika epidemics did not cause birth defects in newborns, despite infecting 75 percent of the population in those countries,”
the paper said.
“Also, in other countries such as Colombia there are no records of microcephaly; however, there are plenty of Zika cases.”

Indeed, as The Ecologist observed from PCST’s report, Colombia has so far diagnosed 3,177 pregnant women with the Zika virus,
but these women gave birth to healthy babies or are carrying healthy fetuses.

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