Brazil: The panic is over at Zika’s epicenter. But for many, the struggle has just begun.

The panic is over at Zika’s epicenter. But for many, the struggle has just begun.
By Marina Lopes and Nick Miroff
February 7, 2017

RECIFE, Brazil — In this city at the heart of the Zika outbreak, the gloom and dread have lifted from maternity hospitals and delivery rooms.

The scary government posters with giant mosquitoes have mostly come down. Fertility clinics are busy again. At one public hospital that has delivered 1,700 newborns over the past five months, doctors haven’t seen a single case of Zika-related birth defects.

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