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Researchers have come a step closer to confirming a connection between Zika and microcephaly, which can cause babies to be born with small heads . The Fiocruz biomedical center in Curitiba - which works with the Brazilian health ministry - announced it had found Zika in the placenta of a woman who had a miscarriage, proving the virus can reach the foetus. Dr Wilson Savino heads up Fiocruz's Zika emergency committee.

Picture - A municipal worker gestures during an operation to combat the mosquitoes that transmits the Zika virus in Recife, Brazil. Health minister Marcelo Castro said that nearly 220,000 members of Brazil"s Armed Forces would go door-to-door to help in mosquito eradication efforts ahead of the country"s Carnival celebrations. (Credit: AP Photo/Felipe Dana)