Jan 31, 2025 · Babies with microcephaly have a smaller head than expected for their age and sex. If your baby was born with congenital Zika infection, they should receive recommended screenings even if they appear healthy. Babies and children affected by Zika virus may have lasting special needs.

Oct 20, 2022 · What are the symptoms of Zika? Only about 1 in 5 people with Zika have symptoms, which include: Fever. Headache. Joint pain. Redness in the whites of your eyes (pink eye/conjunctivitis). Rash that’s a mix of raised and flat red areas of skin (maculopapular), which can be itchy. What causes Zika?

Jan 6, 2016 · Brazilian health authorities are convinced that Luiza's condition is related to the Zika virus that infected her mother during pregnancy. Thousands of Brazil’s newborns last year had abnormally...

The rise in the spread of Zika virus in Brazil has been accompanied by an unprecedented rise in the number of children being born with unusually small heads—identified as microcephaly.

Given the complexity of prenatal diagnosis of microcephaly, the purpose of this document is to review the ultrasound criteria for the diagnosis following exposure to the Zika virus.

Congenital Zika syndrome includes these five birth defects: Severe microcephaly with a partly collapsed skull. Microcephaly is a birth defect in which a baby’s head is smaller than expected, compared to babies of the same sex and age. Babies with mild microcephaly often don’t have problems other than small head size.

Zika-associated birth defects: Selected structural anomalies of the brain or eyes present at birth (congenital) and detected from birth to age 2 years. Microcephaly at birth, with or without low birthweight, was included as a structural anomaly.

Jan 16, 2019 · Since the Zika virus epidemic of 2015, there has been a surge in the number of infants in the Americas born with small heads due to brain damage that occurred when their mothers were infected during pregnancy, a condition called microcephaly.

Jan 29, 2016 · What is Zika virus and how might it disintegrate a developing brain? A sterile female Aedes aegypti mosquito is seen in a research area to prevent the spread of Zika virus and other...

Sep 29, 2016 · Babies born to women infected with the Zika virus can suffer from a birth defect called microcephaly, or abnormally small heads. A new study from Stanford found that the infection can affect the cells that give rise to the bones and cartilage of the skull and face.