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New research may provide more clues on how Zika virus causes microcephaly

Researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine have potentially added to existing knowledge with regard to how Zika virus affects the developing fetal brain. In a study published on September 29 in the journal...

7 October, 2016

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Improving Zika virus detection in infants

Head circumference is not an accurate indicator of viral infection in newborns, researchers report. Zika virus has been linked to microcephaly in the babies of infected mothers, leading some organizations, including the...

1 July, 2016

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Zika virus causes birth defects, health officials confirm

Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday that there was now enough evidence to definitively say that the Zika virus could cause unusually small heads and brain damage in infants born...

15 April, 2016

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Zika virus causes microcephaly in only 1% of births; most harmful to pregnant women in first trimester

The outbreak of Zika virus, a mosquito-borne disease, first began in Brazil in 2014. It has since spread swiftly throughout 31 countries and territories in the Americas. Then, earlier this year, the World Health...

18 March, 2016

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Zika virus

The rapid spread of Zika virus through the Americas, together with the association of infection with microcephaly and Guillain-Barré syndrome, have propelled this previously ignored virus into the limelight. What is...

29 January, 2016

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