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Where pregnant women have more to fear than Zika

Flor Arely Sánchez had been in bed with a fever and pains throughout her body for three days when a July thunderstorm broke over the mountainside. She got nervous when bolts of light flashed in the sky. Lightning strikes the San Julián region of western El Salvador several times a year, and her neighbors fear storms more than they fear the march of diseases — first dengue, then chikungunya, now Zika. Flor worried about a lot of things, since she was pregnant.

Late in the afternoon, when the pains had somewhat eased, Flor thought she might go to a dammed-up…

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is a doctoral candidate in Latin American and Caribbean history at New York University. Her most recent article for Harper’s Magazine, “Displaced in the D.R.,” appeared in the May 2015 issue.



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