Alva Review-Courier -

BONITO, Brazil (AP) — It's well before dawn, but Jose Wesley Campos giggles nonstop as his mother plays with his thick glasses while preparing to take the toddler to a doctor's appointment three hours away.

"Sometimes, it is as if he swallowed a clown," said his mother, Solange Ferreira.

That is a happy contrast from the child's first months, when Jose, who was born with an abnormally small head amid an outbreak of the Zika virus in northeast Brazil, would shriek uncontrollably. Desperate, Ferreira would calm the boy by putting him in a bucket of water.

Images of Jose in the bucket and being s...