seeking treatment have the same symptoms, high fever nausea, and join the and muscle pain, they have a mo keith toe born disease, and for months, they have called it an epidemic and now the government greets. >>> looking for it, we have an epidemic, there are right now we're at 367.8 cases and therefore we can confirm that we are seeing an epidel mick. >>> health ministry is blaming the spread on a severe drought that's causing a breeding ground for mosquitoes to, but many point the finger agovernment saying it's not investing enough in the public healthcare system. >>> i came here last night but it was really bad, there were so many people, i finally gave up waiting. >>> from january to april 18th, brazil registered nearly 746,000 cases. that's more than double last year's figure for same period. but, significantly lower than that in 2013, when there were 1.4 million confirmed cases. >>> the government believes the outbreak has reached its peak and the weather is less favorable for the mosquitoes and, working on a vaccine until that happens, is prevention. the u.s. has announced it will host c