The Zika epidemic and the birth defects it's causing are both the fault of governments that abandoned programs to control mosquitoes and to provide even the most basic family planning assistance to young women, the head of the World Health Organization said Monday.
The Zika virus is basically our fault, WHO chief says
The epidemic is the "price being paid for a massive policy failure that dropped the ball on mosquito control in the 1970s," WHO's head said on Monday.
