Sentences with phrase «microcephaly came»

This experimental proof that the Zika virus caused microcephaly came quite rapidly, and other teams working with Zika have continued to use organoids to test therapeutic interventions and to probe why only some strains of the virus appear to result in the condition.

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The connection between Zika and microcephaly first came to light last fall in Brazil, which has now confirmed more than 1,800 cases of microcephaly that it considers to be related to Zika infection in the mothers.

These findings may correlate with disrupted brain development, but direct evidence for a link between Zika virus and microcephaly is more likely to come from clinical studies, the researchers say.

The study comes in the wake of an ongoing Zika epidemic and an explosion of cases involving fetal death, microcephaly (born with severely decreased head size), and other congenital birth defects.