“Congenital microcephaly has been a hallmark of intrauterine infection with Zika virus,” the authors wrote in their report. “However, despite the absence of microcephaly at birth, the 13 infants in ...

Health experts are warning about a tropical disease spread by midges and mosquitoes, recently detected in US travelers ...

While many people with a Zika virus infection won’t have symptoms, it is very dangerous to pregnant women. That’s because an infection during pregnancy can cause microcephaly, which is when a ...

2025 — The mosquito-borne Zika virus is known for causing microcephaly, a birth defect in which abnormal brain development results in a smaller-than-expected head. A new study shows that the ...

The Oropouche virus has been linked to Zika-like outcomes in pregnant people, with cases more than doubling in 2024 ...

Heading south for the winter? Oropouche virus, a new infectious disease, has been reported in travellers from Canada and the United States who visited Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, and Cuba. An article ...

Heading south for the winter? Oropouche virus, a new infectious disease, has been reported in travellers from Canada and the United States who visited ...

A recent discovery by researchers at the National Institute of Virology (NIV) has raised serious concerns regarding the evolving nature of the Zika virus. The strain that was responsible for a ...

Zika leads to mild illness in most people, but can seriously harm the brains of babies in the womb, causing microcephaly, a rare condition in which a newborn's head is unusually small. The ...

Medscape Medical News, April 15, 2016 Early Ultrasounds May Miss Zika-Induced Microcephaly Zika virus fetal brain damage was undetectable by ultrasound through week 17 of gestation. Experts called ...