Una generación con microcefalia
L a incertidumbre acampó en su casa. En diciembre de 2015, cuando el Ministerio de Salud aseguró que apenas había 4 casos de zika en el país, Noraima Carreño, de 28 años de edad, tuvo todos los síntomas del virus: fiebre, dolor en las articulaciones de manos y pies, erupción y conjuntivitis. La enfermedad se transmite por la picada de un mosquito infectado, y el malestar apenas se manifiesta durante cinco días a una semana en uno de cada cuatro pacientes. El agravante para Carreño: tenía dos meses de embarazo cuando enfermó.Al principio, su médico en el estado Sucre le diagnóstico chikungunya, virus con signos similares también transmitido por vectores. Las semanas siguientes modificarían el veredicto. Las complicaciones que descubrieron mientras evolucionaba el embarazo asociaron inequívocamente esas primeras señales con el padecimiento que azota a América Latina desde 2015.A los cinco meses de gestación el bebé tenía los ventrícu los cerebrales dilatados también conocido como ventriculomegalia. Dos meses después, el médico detectó que tenía...
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