Doctors fear Zika is a sleeping giant in Haiti

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Doctors Fear Zika Is A Sleeping Giant In Haiti

August 31, 20163:46 PM ET

Jason Beaubien 2010

At the Mirebalais Hospital in Haiti's central plateau, Dr. Louise Ivers and Dr. Roman Jean-Louis are examining a baby girl who was born in early July with microcephaly, a smaller-than-normal skull often associated with Zika infections.
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Chinashama is one of three babies born with microcephaly at the Mirebalais Hospital in July. The Haitian Ministry of Health says there have been 11 others born nationwide over the past two months with this usually rare birth defect. But only one has been officially confirmed as a result of the Zika virus.
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Ivers, from Partners in Health, a global health organization based in Boston, says she's quite anxious that Zika is spreading widely across Haiti ? but it's not being detected.
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http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsan...octors-fear-zika-is-a-sleeping-giant-in-haiti

 

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Why The Low Zika Numbers In Haiti Might Be Wrong

September 7, 20165:40 PM ET
JASON BEAUBIEN

The Dominican Republic has identified nearly 1,000 pregnant women suspected of being infected with the Zika virus. Haiti, which shares the same island, has identified only 22.

"There's no reason to believe that the mosquito will behave differently here [in Haiti] than in the Dominican Republic," says Dr. Jean Luc Poncelet, the World Health Organization's representative in Port-au-Prince.

Why are the numbers so dramatically different? Dr. Louise Ivers, with the nonprofit Partners in Health, which runs the largest teaching hospital in Haiti, is concerned that Zika is spreading as a silent epidemic.
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http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsand...might-be-wrong