Gert van der Hoek
In Memoriam - Editor, Senior Moderator
Verona, the first case of miscarriage by the Zika virus
February 20, 2016
"It would have been born on the day of the, in Verona. He has not had time: Zika was faster ". It 'the first "victim" of the Italian virus that hit Central America. The Sofia tells the mother, 26, who until a few months ago lived in Brazil, where he married. It was in 2012 when he decided to leave the Veneto and moved to Natal. She is studying biology. And in March he discovered she was pregnant.
"One morning I woke up - tells La Repubblica - with bone pain and high fever. I was at the beginning of the third month, I got scared. " "My gynecologist Natal. The phone told me: "Do not worry, it should be the new virus, called Zika". I had never heard that name in my life. But she reassured me: "Go in the space of a few days, you have to do nothing." I trusted him. " Then the tragedy, unexpected.
"I was induced childbirth October 15, in a clinic in Ljubljana, where I was advised to turn to. His heart stopped beating. I only have these prints of foot and hand that remind me of my son. Her fabrics I donated search them: a month later they sent me the autopsy results. In his brain they have found, for the first time in Europe, the Zika virus.
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February 20, 2016
"It would have been born on the day of the, in Verona. He has not had time: Zika was faster ". It 'the first "victim" of the Italian virus that hit Central America. The Sofia tells the mother, 26, who until a few months ago lived in Brazil, where he married. It was in 2012 when he decided to leave the Veneto and moved to Natal. She is studying biology. And in March he discovered she was pregnant.
"One morning I woke up - tells La Repubblica - with bone pain and high fever. I was at the beginning of the third month, I got scared. " "My gynecologist Natal. The phone told me: "Do not worry, it should be the new virus, called Zika". I had never heard that name in my life. But she reassured me: "Go in the space of a few days, you have to do nothing." I trusted him. " Then the tragedy, unexpected.
"I was induced childbirth October 15, in a clinic in Ljubljana, where I was advised to turn to. His heart stopped beating. I only have these prints of foot and hand that remind me of my son. Her fabrics I donated search them: a month later they sent me the autopsy results. In his brain they have found, for the first time in Europe, the Zika virus.
Link to another article
