Now that Zika virus has begun spreading in the continental United States for the first time, there's growing concern about the potential impact on pregnant women and unborn babies. The CDC issued a ...

As Zika virus infections continue to spread, with cases reported in parts of Florida and southeast Asia, most people are familiar with the virus’s most damaging effects: on the developing fetus during ...

Babies exposed to the Zika virus as fetuses are more than 50 times more likely to be born with abnormally small heads and underdeveloped brains — a condition called microcephaly — as other babies, ...

Of the many mysteries that remain about the Zika virus and its attack on the Americas, perhaps the most puzzling one relates to the bizarre distribution of babies born with Zika-induced microcephaly.

Scott and Gwen Hartley's daughters have a neurological condition. — -- From the very beginning, Scott and Gwen Hartley from Kansas knew there was something very different about their daughter, ...

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- After news that a baby was born in Harris County with Microcephaly associated with the Zika Virus, a Houston-area mother is shedding light on what it's like living with the defect.

As Palm Beach County reacts to the first locally contracted case of the Zika virus, one local mother is hoping her story will help pregnant mothers who are infected with the disease.The Zika virus is ...

A first-of-its-kind study is strengthening the case that Zika is the culprit behind Brazil’s mysterious surge in babies born with microcephaly. Preliminary results from a study commissioned by the ...

The Zika virus might have been just another mosquito-borne infection—only on our radar if we lived in or planned to visit a tropical setting, much like yellow fever, dengue fever, or Chikungunya—if ...

GUARENAS, Venezuela – Deep inside a hilly Venezuelan slum, Ericka Torres rocks her three-month-old son Jesus to soothe his near-constant crying. Jesus was diagnosed with microcephaly, a birth defect ...

The rare birth defect is associated with the mosquito-borne Zika virus. — -- At the center of the Zika virus crisis is the rise of a dangerous condition called microcephaly. The rare birth defect ...

A new tissue screening technology has been applied to human brain organoids, report scientists at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. The technology, called CRISPR-LICHT (for CRIPSR-LIneage tracing at ...