Zika

That was one of the first words my 15-month-old daughter started uttering before any news of the virus broke. It was her way of saying, “Give.” Whenever she wanted something, she pointed at it and in a staccato manner of speech commanded, “Zzikkaa.” As first-time parents, trying to decipher the gibberish from the coherent is a daunting but exhilarating task, because for children, everything makes sense; it is the adults who really need to find true meaning.