Before SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, there was the Zika virus epidemic, lasting from 2015 to 2016. The Zika virus can cause serious birth defects and abnormalities. During the epidemic, one of the most ...

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- After news that a baby was born in Harris County with Microcephaly associated with the Zika Virus, a Houston-area mother is shedding light on what it's like living with the defect.

The Zika virus can duplicate itself thousands of times in the brains of fetuses and the placentas of previously infected pregnant women, according to a new CDC study published in the agency’s journal ...

A lack of fetal tissue research could hurt scientists’ efforts to study the spreading Zika virus, according to a scientist who testified during a House hearing on fetal tissue research and abortion.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fetuses in 29 percent of pregnant women with Zika virus infection were found to have a range of severe abnormalities, according to preliminary results from a small study that ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio—Contracting the Zika virus during pregnancy can lead to permanent changes in the immune system of the baby, found a study from the Cleveland Clinic. Although 95% of babies born of Zika ...

Studying a new type of pinhead-size, lab-grown brain made with technology first suggested by three high school students, Johns Hopkins researchers have confirmed a key way in which Zika virus causes ...

Microcephaly and intracranial calcifications are not the only brain abnormalities that infants born to Zika-infected women are at risk of developing. In a study, published in RSNA Radiology, ...

Cleveland Clinic-led findings challenge the current diagnostic criteria for congenital Zika syndrome, expanding the definition beyond skull or brain abnormalities Only 5% of children whose mothers ...

Another step towards understanding why the virus causes microcephaly. I thought I had read that there was a complication in the whole "Zika causes microcephaly" bit because not all infected ...