Argentine and Brazilian doctors suspect mosquito insecticide as cause of microcephaly
From The Ecologist:
Claire Robinson / GMWatch
10th February 2016
10th February 2016
Excerpts:
With the proposed connection between the Zika virus and Brazil’s outbreak of microcephaly in new born babies looking increasingly tenuous, Latin American doctors are proposing another possible cause: Pyriproxyfen, a pesticide used in Brazil since 2014 to arrest the development of mosquito larvae in drinking water tanks. Might the ‘cure’ in fact be the poison?
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