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Eight months into her pregnancy in 2016, 17-year-old Antônia Jardênia da Silva visited her doctor to ask the sex of her baby. She left his office having learned two things: She was carrying a girl, and da Silva had Zika.
The year before, a heat wave had hit da Silva’s hometown in the Brazilian countryside, causing a severe drought. The government provided large mobile tanks of water as an emergency response. Over the next year, these tanks became a breeding ground for Zika-virus mosquitoes, which then infected da Silva.