BRAZILIAN HEALTH MINISTER DOES NOT SEEM TO BE TREATING SERIOUSLY THE OUTBREAK OF MICROCEPHALY IN BABIES

The Minister of Health contracts the zika virus and says: "I'm glad I can't get pregnant"

I don't think he would joke with that serious problem if one of his relatives, a grandson or granddaughter, maybe, was born with microcephaly.

News below, reproduced from BBC News:

The brain condition can be deadly or cause intellectual disability and developmental delays.

Brazil's health ministry says that 90% of notified suspected cases of microcephaly are in the north-east - and 6% in the south-east, an area which includes Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.