Nuts! I read an article from a Univ of CA affiliated medical center, and the neurological impact on the developing brains of the unborn was horrifying. Brains fail to fully develop (as in missing full lobes, only to have cerebral spinal fluid fill the gaps), and some have skulls collapse in on the malformed brains.
This virus has not always been this virulent, much in the way HIV was not always as virulent as it was prior to its’ emergence in the late 70’s/early 80’s. Like all pathogens, it simply mutated. Sadly, like all disease causing pathogens, for the worse.
True, but like most Viri, it has a simple RNA ; I don't believe that any of the current side effects were associated with the disease when it was first isolated in 1947.
I am wondering if it is a regionalized variant native to Brazil, or whether it is simply a naturally occurring mutant, as many of these effects have not previously been observed.