Caught off-guard by Zika, Brazil struggles with deformed babies

By Anthony Boadle RECIFE, Brazil (Reuters) - Angela Rocha, a paediatrician in northeastern Brazil, measures the head of a child born with microcephaly, a tragic neurological complication linked to Zika, the mosquito-borne virus sparking a health scare across the Americas. More than 1,000 cases of microcephaly have been reported in just a few months in Pernambuco state, the epicentre of the Zika outbreak. "We were taken by surprise," says Rocha, a veteran infectious disease specialist at the Oswa