USA Today Sports travels across Brazil and finds out what action is being taken to combat Zika and its potential heartbreaking complications. USA TODAY Sports
RECIFE, Brazil – At the epicenter of Brazil’s Zika virus crisis, four-month-old Daniel Vieira cries and shudders and flails in the arms of his mother, Jaqueline.
Daniel is in the waiting room of the Oswaldo Cruz medical center, in Brazil’s northeastern coastal city of Recife. It is where links between Zika and abnormalities in newborns were first identified late last year, sparking fears of a global epidemic.