Sentences with phrase «microcephaly following»

«Using ultrasound screening for fetal microcephaly: Statement on ultrasound screening for fetal microcephaly following Zika virus exposure.»

The Society for Maternal - Fetal Medicine released a statement on the use of ultrasound screening for fetal microcephaly following Zika virus exposure.

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Last year, however, concerns about the virus skyrocketed following the link between Zika virus infection with microcephaly in Brazil.

The team's results may begin to answer an outstanding question from the Zika epidemic: Why have Zika - related microcephaly and other brain abnormalities been seen in areas hard - hit by outbreaks in the past few years but not in the decades following the virus's discovery in 1947?

Colombia's dramatic uptick in microcephaly cases follows one reported in Brazil, which, in 2015, experienced a ninefold increase in cases compared with the previous 14 years.

Espinal detailed several studies underway, including a study in Brazil that will reveal information in April about children with microcephaly in the state of Pernambuco and cohort studies in Colombia are currently following 2,000 pregnant women infected with Zika virus.

However, this is precisely the type of question that researchers are now seeking to answer with the additional funding and resource made available following the WHO statement yesterday declaring the potential link between Zika virus and microcephaly as a public health emergency of internal concern.»

In their follow up modelling study they reported Zika virus infection during the first trimester of pregnancy led to higher than expected rates of microcephaly.