Sentences with phrase «suspected microcephaly»

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.

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She said Brazil had registered more than 4,700 suspected cases of microcephaly and a quarter was only studied for the moment.

But health officials suspect it may be behind a surge in cases of microcephaly, a condition which causes babies to develop abnormally small brains and skulls — leading to permanent disability or death.

Although Zika has not been definitively proved to cause Guillain - Barre or microcephaly, a severe deformation of baby's brains, the World Health Organisation strongly suspects it does.

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.

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.

From the beginning there have been people who have suspected that rather than being a new species, this is actually a modern human that suffered from a disease known as microcephaly.

In Brazil, the country hit hardest by the epidemic so far, there have been 6,906 suspected cases of microcephaly as of April 2, 2016.

Although Brazil has had more than 4000 suspected cases of microcephaly, it has confirmed only 270 cases of this brain - damaging condition in children born to mothers who had evidence of having been infected with the virus.

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

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

Brazilian officials suspect the country has thousands of microcephaly cases tied to Zika.

The FBDS phenotype has been reported in an infant with laboratory - confirmed ZIKV infection, 13 in a neuroimaging report documenting cranial bone collapse in infants born to mothers with suspected ZIKV infection during pregnancy, 14 and a recent case series of infants with probable ZIKV - associated microcephaly.38 In 3 of the largest case series reporting 35, 48, and 104 infants primarily with suspected congenital ZIKV infection, 33,37,38 approximately two - thirds of infants had severe microcephaly.

Results: Here, we report six patients with microcephaly, facial dysmorphism, including exophthalmos, nevus flammeus of the glabella and joint contractures with a suspected BOS posture in five out of six patients.

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.

It is suspected — but not proven — that the virus is to blame for a birth defect called microcephaly that causes babies to be born with abnormally small heads and possible brain damage.

In Brazil, the worst hit country, there have been 131,643 confirmed cases, 219,280 suspected cases, and 2,542 instances of microcephaly and other central nervous system birth defects.