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«There was one special needs boy with microcephaly in my classroom who hadn't spoken in 10 years and when I pushed him on the swing in the playground he counted to 10 for me and brought me and the teacher to tears.»

The Zika virus has been linked to microcephaly in newborn babies.

Since first detected in April 2014, there have been over 4,000 births of babies with suspected microcephaly in Brazil, compared with a previous yearly average of 154.

But in and around the tropics, public health officials and communities are already fixated on the rapid spread of the virus, particularly given signs (but not yet direct evidence) that Zika is causing the devastating brain malformation microcephaly in babies born to some infected women in affected zones in Brazil and elsewhere.

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The discovery doesn't prove the Zika virus is the cause of thousands of cases of microcephaly in Brazilian babies since the spring.

The Pan American Health Organization says cases of microcephaly in Brazil increased 20-fold last year.

The CDC said the precaution is in place «until we know more» about the dangers of sexual transmission of the mosquito - borne virus, which is linked to thousands of cases of microcephaly in newborns in Brazil.

Since the Zika epidemic began last spring, it's believed there have been more than 5,600 suspected or confirmed cases of microcephaly in Brazil, the World Health Organization reported Friday.

A recent increase in the prevalence of microcephaly in newborn infants and vision - threatening findings in these infants is likely associated with the rapid spread of ZIKV.

Based on data from population - based birth defects surveillance programs for 2009 - 2013, the median prevalence of microcephaly in the United States was approximately 7 per 10000 live births.29 There are no published estimates of the prevalence of the birth defects potentially related to Zika virus infection during pregnancy combined.

However, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that if a pregnant woman contracts the virus, it can cause microcephaly in fetuses, resulting in small heads and brain damage.

The Zika virus has become a global health concern due to its rapid spread and concerning link to microcephaly in infants.

The number of babies born with microcephaly in 2016 there was four times what it was in 2015.

The rate of infants and fetuses who had microcephaly in Colombia from 2015 to the end of 2016 is shown with a dotted line.

Health authorities are increasingly convinced that the mosquito - borne virus has caused microcephaly in hundreds of babies in Brazil, the epicenter of the Zika outbreak that is sweeping through the Americas.

«Studies of fetuses and babies with the telltale small brains and heads of microcephaly in Zika - affected areas have found abnormalities in the cortex, and Zika virus has been found in the fetal tissue,» says Guo - li Ming, M.D., Ph.D., a professor of neurology, neuroscience, and psychiatry and behavioral science at Johns Hopkins» Institute for Cell Engineering.

Working with lab - grown human stem cells, a team of researchers suspect they have discovered how the Zika virus probably causes microcephaly in fetuses.

We next estimated the maximum number of births potentially affected by ZIKV in Latin America, as this region is the focus of the recent outbreak and the first to point to a possible association with microcephaly in newborn infants to mothers infected with ZIKV.

Since October, Brazil has reported more than 4,000 suspected cases of microcephaly in areas with Zika circulation.

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.

Although Zika causes no harm in most people it infects, its possible role in clusters of microcephaly in babies and Guillain - Barré syndrome in adults led the World Health Organization on 1 February to declare that it is a «public health emergency of international concern.»

With its rapid spread throughout Central and South America, Zika has emerged as a severe health threat that can cause microcephaly in newborns, as well as Guillain - Barre syndrome in children and adults.

The approach enabled a wide range of studies of human brain development, including implicating a new class of neural stem cell recently discovered by the lab in the evolutionary expansion of the human brain and identifying how the mosquito - borne Zika virus may contribute to microcephaly in infants infected in utero.

Increasingly strong links between the spread of Zika virus and microcephaly in newborns led the World Health Organization (WHO) today to declare a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.

The disease has also been confirmed to cause microcephaly in more than 2,700 infants born to women infected with the virus while pregnant.

Zika made international headlines when it was linked to an epidemic of babies born with microcephaly in Brazil.

Sometimes they are catastrophic, most notably when they cause microcephaly in some babies born to infected mothers.

But the virus has also been linked to an autoimmune disease that can cause paralysis called Guillain — Barré syndrome as well as an alarming surge in a birth defect called microcephaly in Brazil.

Some researchers wondered, though, about the extent of Zika's role in microcephaly in Colombia.

Two of them also prove for the first time in an animal model that Zika virus can cause microcephaly in fetuses.

Stella Guerra performs physical therapy on an infant born with microcephaly in Recife, Brazil.

The WHO in February declared the Zika virus an international public health emergency due to its association in Brazil with suspected cases of microcephaly in babies.

Brazil said on Friday the number of confirmed and suspected cases of microcephaly in Brazil associated with the Zika virus has risen to 5,131 from 4,976 a week earlier.

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

«Immune molecule protects against Zika virus infection in animal models: Molecule also protects against Zika - induced microcephaly in mouse model.»

Using human fetal «mini-brains» grown in 3 - D cultures, scientists determined that a specific protein produced by the Zika virus changes the properties of neural stem cells in the developing brain of an infected fetus, potentially causing microcephaly in newborns (Ki - Jun Yoon, abstract 103.06, see attached summary).

The strains currently circulating in the Western Hemisphere, which have been linked to microcephaly in infants and Guillain Barre syndrome in adults, are more closely related to the Asian lineage.

However, the growing belief that Zika can also trigger microcephaly in babies born to mothers infected while pregnant has spread international alarm.

It has been linked to more than 1,600 cases of microcephaly in Brazil.

The number of babies born with microcephaly in northeast Brazil, the country hardest hit by the Zika outbreak, has increased about 40-fold from baseline levels in the last six months, according to reports from Brazil's Ministry of Health.

Most people who get Zika have mild symptoms — and many don't even realize they have the virus — but the disease can cause severe neurological problems, including Guillain - Barre Syndrome in adults and microcephaly in fetuses.

While the virus is often symptom - free and usually mild, it can also cause birth defects like microcephaly in babies and trigger immune diseases like Guillain - Barre syndrome in adults.

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One of the reasons it's been so troubling is that it's a cause of a serious birth defect called microcephaly, in which the head of babies whose mothers have been infected with Zika during pregnancy are abnormally small.

«There is no evidence linking any vaccine to the increases in microcephaly cases that were observed first in French Polynesia during the 2013 - 2014 outbreak and more recently in northeastern Brazil,» the WHO said in a statement.

This appears to be the first US case of a baby born with microcephaly, a condition in which the brain is abnormally small, after having a Zika infection.

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One reason Zika is troubling is that it is a cause of birth defects, including microcephaly — a condition where the baby's head is abnormally small — in babies whose mothers have had Zika.

But Zika in pregnant women has recently been linked to a serious birth defect called microcephaly, in which a baby is born with a small head and brain.

One reason Zika is troubling is because it is a cause of birth defects, including microcephaly — a condition where the baby's head is abnormally small — in babies whose mothers have had Zika.