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Mothers Jusikelly (R) and Inabela hold their daughters Luhandra (R) and Graziella, both born with microcephaly, as they wear their new glasses on a bus ride after a clinic visit on June 2, 2016 in Recife, Brazil. Microcephaly is a birth defect linked to the Zika virus where infants are born with abnormally small heads. Some of these infants are also suffering from vision problems in Brazil. Mothers often must ride many hours on buses to take their children for medical visits. The Brazilian city of Recife and surrounding Pernambuco state remain the epicenter of the Zika virus outbreak, which has now spread to many countries in the Americas. A group of health experts recently called for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games to be postponed or cancelled due to the Zika threat but the WHO (World Health Organization) rejected the proposal. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
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