'More abortions Brazil by zikavirus'

- Expanding the zikavirus in Brazil ensures that the number of abortions is rising. Fearing skull abnormalities of babies, the disease which is associated, infected women terminate their pregnancies. That the newspaper Folha de São Paulo.

The newspaper relies on stories from multiple doctors. They report that women in general have enjoyed a high level of education, having enough money and want a child but are desperate by the future prospects of their unborn child.

The danger is that babies born to women infected brain diseases contracted through the virus transmitted by mosquitoes. Thus, for skull defects in conjunction with neurological disorders that lead to development problems. That condition is called microcephaly. According to doctors, some women do not even wait on the prognosis, but they opt for a private abortion, which costs about 15 000 Real in Brazil (equivalent to approximately 3 500 Euros). In Brazil, for more than 4000 suspected cases of skull defects. In six cases, definitively determined that it is because pregnant women had contracted the zikavirus.

The World Health Organization is Monday at an emergency meeting to determine whether the spread of the zikavirus serves as a so-called global emergency. The WHO provides three to four million cases of infection on the continent, particularly in Brazil. There is no vaccine against the zikavirus, and according to experts, which will this year not more.