Claim(permalink)
Claims Zika “affects everyone” — not just pregnant women and their babies — because recent research found that it “causes people to go blind.”
✓factcheckorg rating: not credible; published on 2016-09-20
Factors
veracity
not credible
Political Leaning
left political leaning
Sentiment
neutral sentiment
Date published
2016-09-20
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