Argentine and Brazilian doctors suspect mosquito insecticide as cause of microcephaly

The Ecologist
Feb 10, 2016, 1:12 pm254 pts
With the proposed connection between the Zika virus and Brazil's outbreak of microcephaly in new born babies looking increasingly tenuous, Latin American doctors are proposing another possible cause: Pyriproxyfen, a pesticide used in Brazil since 2014 to arrest the development of mosquito larvae in drinking…

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