Winner of the 2017 Jabuti Book Prize
The Zika virus is devastating lives and communities. Children across the
Americas are being born with severe disabilities because of it. Yet
during the desolating outbreak, Brazil played host to both the Olympics
and the FIFA World Cup, leading many to suspect that the true impact of
the virus has been subject to a cover-up of international proportions.
Beginning in the northeast, where the devastation has been most felt,
professor of bioethics and award-winning documentary filmmaker Debora
Diniz travels across Brazil tracing the virus's origin and spread. Along
the journey she meets a host of fearless families, doctors and
scientists uncovering the virus's impact on local communities. In doing
so Diniz paints a vivid picture of the Zika epidemic, exposing the
Brazilian government's complicity in allowing the virus to spread while
championing the efforts of local doctors and mothers who, working
together, are raising awareness of the virus and fighting for the rights
of children affected by Zika.