LOS ANGELES (KGO) -- A mother who contracted the Zika virus gave birth inside a Bay Area delivery room and the baby has Zika-related birth defects. Two sources, who asked not to be identified, ...
MADRID (AP) — Health officials in Barcelona say a woman has given birth to a baby boy with microcephaly associated with the Zika virus — the first detected case in Spain. The defect was detected last ...
The head of the CDC announced new findings Wednesday that further support the connection between Zika and a serious birth defect called microcephaly - babies born with abnormally small heads and ...
A direct causal link between Zika virus infection in pregnant women and the brain damaging birth defect has been registered by a study. But while preliminary findings from the first 32 cases involved ...
Fetuses are at the highest risk of developing Zika-related microcephaly when mothers are infected in the first half of pregnancy, according to the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
CHICAGO, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Thirteen babies in Brazil born with normal head circumference have been diagnosed with congenital Zika syndrome, with brain scans showing extensive malformations, ...
On Monday, director general of the World Health Organization Dr. Margaret Chan declared the mosquito-borne Zika virus to be an international public health emergency. Chan made a particular point of ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Confirming the worst fears of many pregnant women in the United States and Latin America, U.S. health officials said Wednesday there is no longer any doubt the Zika virus causes babies ...
Microcephaly and intracranial calcifications are not the only brain abnormalities that infants born to Zika-infected women are at risk of developing. In a study, published in RSNA Radiology, ...
(CNN) — Here’s a look at Zika virus, an illness spread through mosquito bites that can cause birth defects and other neurological defects. Zika virus is a flavivirus, part of the same family as yellow ...
HACKENSACK, NJ — has given birth to a baby with microcephaly after contracting Zika somewhere outside the country. ABC reports the woman gave birth to the baby at the Donna A. Sanzari Women’s Hospital ...
The Centers for Disease Control has identified the Zika virus in the tissue of two babies who died in Brazil from microcephaly — the strongest link yet between the virus and the birth defect that has ...