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 ...

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.

HOUSTON (CBSDFW.COM) - Texas has received laboratory confirmation of a past Zika virus infection in a baby recently born with microcephaly in Harris County. The mother traveled from Latin America, ...

A consortium of Brazilian research centers has gathered data on 843 children born from 2015 to 2018 with Zika-related ...

LOS ANGELES (KGO) -- A mother who contracted the Zika virus gave birth inside a Bay Area delivery room and the baby has Zika-related birth defects. Two sources, who asked not to be identified, ...

A woman from the U.S. who had traveled to Latin America during her pregnancy gave birth to a girl with Zika-related microcephaly in Texas, and the baby died shortly after her birth, the Texas health ...

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The decision is based not on one single piece of conclusive evidence, but rather a growing body of research. A report on the CDC’s decision was published in The New England Journal of Medicine. The ...

In 2020, "the virus" has come to mean one thing: SARS-CoV-2. But just a few years ago, Zika had the world's attention, as one news report after another described children with microcephaly born to ...

* Causation not proven but "increasing accumulation of evidence" * WHO to accelerate research on diagnostics, vaccines * New tools also to be studied for controlling mosquitoes (Adds quotes, details,) ...

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A pregnant woman infected by zika virus does not face a greater risk of giving birth to a baby with microcephaly if she has previously been exposed to dengue virus, according to a Brazilian study that ...