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 ...
New study revealed links between infection caused by Zika virus and vision threatening eye abnormalities in infants with microcephaly - a birth defect characterised by an abnormally small head.
Microcephaly, a birth defect where a baby's head is smaller than expected when compared to babies of the same sex and age, is also more common in children around the region than in children from ...
The virus can cause Zika virus disease. 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 ...