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Members of the band, Mosquitos

The World’s music features this week: Mosquitos and Cero39

January 5, 2018Music

We love music here at The World, and we love to share our latest favorites with you. Here are some of the artists we featured this week.

Margareth Capurro

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A baby born with microcephaly reacts to stimulus during an evaluation session with a physiotherapist at the Altino Ventura rehabilitation center in Recife, Brazil on January 28, 2016.

We’re not sure if Zika is causing all those microcephaly cases. But there’s no evidence it’s pesticides.

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