From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

Brooke Gladstone is away this week.

I'm Bob Garfield.

The first baby with Zika-related birth defects has been born in the New York City,

Tri-State area.

The baby girl was born with the tell-tale signs of Zika,

a small head and partially developed brain.

Doctors at Hackensack University Medical Center say the child was born to a mother from Honduras yesterday.

The woman gave birth while vacationing, though, here in the United States.

As the virus spreads, so do fears.

Last Friday, a petition signed by more than 100 doctors and health experts worldwide

urged the World Health Organization to call for moving

or postponing the Summer Olympics from Zika-plagged Brazil.

The WHO, along with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, say there is so far no public health

justification for such drastic action. So, naturally, into the vacuum of

official uncertainty rushes, pseudoscience, and paranoia. Mark Dred Zee is an assistant

professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins University and the lead author of a new study

about Zika virus-related

conspiracy theories. He and his team had spent a lot of time looking at social media to understand

why people refuse vaccines. And earlier this year, they noticed that Zika chatter had started to show

up in anti-vaccine threads. After separating out those sharing

reasonable information about Zika from those sharing misinformation, the researchers built a

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