Brazilian health officials and the World Health Organization are denying links between a well-known pesticide and microcephaly, a condition that causes babies to develop abnormally small heads and leads to death in some cases. The pesticide is called Pyriproxyfen, and it’s used in water tanks to eliminate mosquito larvae.

Brazilian health officials and the World Health Organization are denying links between a well-known pesticide and microcephaly, a condition that causes babies to develop abnormally small heads and leads to death in some cases. The pesticide is called Pyriproxyfen, and it’s used in water tanks to eliminate mosquito larvae.:

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“We decided to suspend the use of the product [Pyriproxyfen] in human consumption water until we get a position in the Ministry of Health and because of that we strengthen the appeal to the population to eliminate any possible breeding ground of the mosquito,” said Gabbardo said…

There are a large number of people who believe that Zika is being blamed too quickly..