scientists at Rockefeller University in New York City and their colleagues elsewhere have now examined how Zika virus infection impacts adult brain cells. As it turns out, as it has for fetal neural ...

This past year, the Zika virus has emerged as global ... which kills little baby mosquitoes before they ever mature into adults. As the modified bugs breed more and more, the mosquito population ...

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Among them, 35 turned out to have been infected with Zika, and within this group, 27 had Guillain-Barre syndrome, which causes debilitating paralysis. Five patients had encephalitis, or inflammation ...

in which babies have abnormally small heads and symptoms that range from mild developmental delays to a fatal condition. Zika virus can also cause a neurologic condition in adults known as ...

MICHAEL SMITH: When a pregnant woman gets zika virus, doctors believe it can cause a serious, often fatal birth defect called microcephaly. That means the baby's head and brain are much smaller ...

While infection with Zika virus in adults typically leads to mild symptoms and very rarely Guillain-Barré syndrome, “the primary concern surrounding ZIKV arises from the occurrence of ...

There is an undeniable possibility that a newborn could be affected by the Zika virus, but what is most spine-chilling is that its effects could appear months or years after birth.

Here’s a look at Zika virus, an illness spread through mosquito bites that can cause birth defects and other neurological defects. Facts Sources: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), ...