microcephaly

Earlier this year the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) confirmed that the mosquito-borne Zika virus causes severe birth defects, in particular microcephaly—a disorder characterized by an abnormally small head and ...

Since the attribution to the formerly harmless virus Zika of a cluster of cases in northeastern Brazil of ...

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Microcephaly is a serious birth defect characterized by an abnormally small head. In Brazil, this congenital malformation is ...

At the end of October 2015, the Brazilian state of Pernambuco, located in the northeast of the country, ...

NEW YORK—A sexually transmitted case of Zika in Texas has scientists scrambling to understand how much of a ...

GENEVA—The World Health Organization declared a global emergency over the explosive spread of the Zika virus, which has ...

The unfolding information about the Zika virus and saddening images of babies infected with microcephaly should really scare ...

Just last week, the first case of the Zika virus was discovered in the United States when a woman ...

RIO DE JANEIRO—New figures released Wednesday by Brazil's Health Ministry as part of a probe into the Zika ...

RIO DE JANEIRO—The more than 3,000 health inspectors in Rio de Janeiro are stepping up inspections for mosquito ...