Friday has become the day of the week Dr Adriana Melo dreads most. That is because Friday is the day when she performs ultrasound scans of women who were infected with the Zika virus during their pregnancy. An obstetrician who specialises in foetal medicine, Dr Melo was the first in Brazil to find a connection between the virus and microcephaly, a condition where babies are born with abnormally small heads. The link between Zika and microcephaly has not yet been confirmed, but the World Health Organisation says it is "strongly suspected".'Turning their world upside down' Dr Melo found the Zika virus in the amniotic fluid of two of her pregnant patients in the city of Campina Grande, in the...
