Camila Mota

People stopped paying attention.

Yeah.

And that's why 10 years later, last year, we actually went back to some of those families to see how these kids were.

Sure.

And to add on that, it was actually more on the coming together of the scientific community.

I think that Brazil's experience with the Zika epidemic was really interesting because you have...

babies being born with congenital Zika syndrome in other countries.

And until then, you know, doctors hadn't put together that maybe those two things were correlated, that the microcephaly cases were due to the Zika virus infecting the mothers.

So it was in Brazil.

In August 2015, in the northeastern part of the country, which is one of the poorest parts of Brazil, but then doctors started to realize maybe these two things might be correlated.

And then it started like wildfires, you were saying before, but within the Brazilian scientific community.

And Brazil is such a large country.

But doctors and scientists were exchanging information, you know, and working together to try to understand what was going on.

And then the world was watching Brazil, not just because of the disease, but also because part of the answers were coming out from here.

Definitely.

And I think that audiences might be paying more attention to that because of the COVID pandemic.

So much was talked about how these things are intertwined, you know, climate change and deforestation.

I mean, if you take forests away, mosquitoes will reproduce and invade your city.

And that might be a problem.

And I think the more we go through these traumatic experiences online,