Zika effects found in babies months after birth
New findings about Zika’s effects have surfaced in a study conducted on 12 babies whose mothers were infected with Zika. The babies, who are in Brazil, have microcephaly, a condition caused by Zika that damages the brain, reports The New York Times.
Though none of the babies in the study were born with unusually small heads, which is a major sign of brain damage caused by Zika, 11 of them developed it as they have grown older. Through imaging, doctors have learned that as the babies have grown, their brain has not followed accordingly. The study was published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
“There are some areas of great deficiency in the babies,” said Cynthia Moore, MD, the director of the division of congenital and developmental disorders for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and an author on the study. “They certainly are going to have a lot of impairment.”
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