microcephaly
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The List Of Zika Birth Defects Is Even Longer Than We Thought
Since the Centres for Disease Control confirmed that the Zika virus could cause microcephaly in newborns, the list of the effects of the virus only continues to grow.
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Our First Major Breakthrough In Understanding How Zika Virus Attacks The Brain
Scientists strongly suspect a link between Zika and microcephaly, a disorder that causes abnormally small heads in newborns, but they’re not entirely sure. Now, a team of researchers may have figured out how this mosquito-borne virus attacks the developing brains of foetuses — and wow, is it nasty.
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We’ve Found The Most Compelling Evidence Yet That Links Zika To Birth Defects
A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine is bolstering a potential link between Zika and microcephaly, a rare birth defect in which babies are born with abnormally small heads.