These include the presence of a brain tumor, the correction of brain anomalies and the removal of blood clots just to name a few. (sevneurology.com)
It emerged as an infectious threat in the Western hemisphere in Brazil in 2015 where it made news for creating a spate of birth defects, including the devastating brain anomaly microcephaly. (sciencedaily.com)
One way to nail down the connection, Bispo says, would be to show that the virus can cause similar brain anomalies in developing animals. (sciencemag.org)