Scientists struggling to unravel the mysteries of a Zika epidemic in Brazil hope they can learn from cases of women giving birth to twins in which only one child is afflicted by the microcephaly birth defect associated with the virus ... "When I found out one of them had microcephaly, the ground fell out from beneath me," the 25-year-old said as she sat on the sofa of her home in the city of Santos ... "I thank God for giving her to me......
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Canadian officials fear a massive wildfire could double in size by the end of Saturday as they continue to evacuate residents of fire-ravaged Fort McMurray from work camps north of Alberta's oil sands city ... ....
Speculation rife about piracy or fire on board Tamaya 1, registered in Panama, who last known position was on 21 April near Gambia and Senegal. @alanyuhas. An abandoned oil tanker has washed up on the shores of Liberia in west Africa, prompting an investigation – and speculation over the fate of the ship’s crew ... map ... The ship was en route to the Senegalese port of Dakar, according to the site ... ....