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Q COSTA RICA – In Puntarenas, a week ago, a 16 year-old girl and a 40 year-old woman gave birth to babies with microcephaly.
The Costa Rica Ministry of Health (Ministerio de Salud) classifies the cases of microcephaly as “probable”, as there is still a lack of evidence to associate this congenital malformation with the Zika virus.
However, medical records show the women had the virus at some point during pregnancy.
These births are in addition to another birth with microcephaly at the beginning of March, to a mother who had the Zika virus. That case was also in Puntarenas.
The three births this March is one more than the two in March last year.
Dr. Daniel Salas Peraza, Director of Health Surveillance, of the Ministry of
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