We need to get the message out that this is real, and coming, without getting everybody to panic, there will be a steep curve of new information coming in.

William Dobyns

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These children have a very severe form of microcephaly, the brain is not just small, it's small with malformations of the cerebral cortex and calcifications. It has the appearance of a very severe, destructive injury to the brain.

If the brain is growing and then suddenly shrinks, then you'll see fluid between the brain and skull, it has a pattern that suggests that the brain has actually decreased in size.