A CDC study of births in U.S. territories tallies birth defects and later health problems Babies exposed to a Zika infection while in the womb are not out of the woods even if they look healthy at ...

Last year, 5 percent of the babies born to nearly 1,000 mothers in the U.S. who showed signs of Zika virus infection during their pregnancies had birth defects, the US Centers for Disease Control and ...

MICHAEL SMITH: When a pregnant woman gets zika virus, doctors believe it can cause a serious, often fatal birth defect called microcephaly. That means the baby's head and brain are much smaller ...

One of the reasons it's been so troubling is that it's a cause of a serious birth defect called microcephaly, in which the head of babies whose mothers have been infected with Zika during ...

Elevated levels of a neurotoxin in northeastern Brazil’s drinking water and a high incidence of microcephaly in the region led scientists to look for a link, and they found one. Ashley started at The ...

Feb. 21, 2025 — Infection with Zika virus in pregnancy can lead to neurological disorders, fetal abnormalities and fetal death. Until now, how the virus manages to cross the placenta ...

Zika, a mosquito-borne virus first identified ... That’s because an infection during pregnancy can cause microcephaly, which is when a baby's head is much smaller than expected, and other ...

In most cases Zika virus disease is a mild illness, but Zika virus can cause a serious birth defect known as microcephaly, in which babies have abnormally small heads and symptoms that range from mild ...

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where the disease has been linked to an explosion of microcephaly among an estimated 4,000 babies. RELATED: Will the EPA Cause a Zika Pandemic? But on Tuesday, Dallas County, Texas, reported the ...

Pune: The Zika virus strain that circulated in the city between June and September last year had certain concerning mutations ...