Microcephaly News

Scientist say a single genetic mutation in Zika's structural protein called prM in May 2013 developed severe microcephaly and Guillain-Barre, a rare neurological disorder

4.3 infants per 1,00,000 are born with microcephaly in Thailand, twice the global average, says Thai virologist Praset Thongcharoen

African countries have been advised to heighten risk communication to pregnant women in order to raise awareness of complications associated with the Zika

Since Zika has been detected in parts of Asia and Africa for decades, scientists have been flummoxed as to why the virus has not yet affected Africa or India

The CDC report says it's now clear that the virus causes microcephalya congenital condition associated with incomplete brain development

Chile, where the mosquitoes that transmit the virus are not found, has confirmed 10 cases of Zika involving people infected outside the country

It found one case in the samples, which dated back to 2014, a 67-year-old from Chittagong, who had not travelled abroad and was found to have the virus in his blood

Zika increases the risk of microcephaly an otherwise rare condition that results in an abnormally small head by fifty-fold, say researchers

WHO has declared only four PHEICs this decade, the latest one for the Zika virus and microcephaly and other abnormalities reported in Latin America

The US county department said on Twitter that the person was infected through sexual contact with someone who had travelled to Venezuela