Zika study reveals how infection can cause microcephaly

Prenatal exposure to viruses capable of infecting the fetal brain, particularly in the first trimester, can cause a range of developmental defects in the baby. The Zika epidemic in Brazil during 2015–16 posed an extreme case, causing hundreds of babies to be born with microcephaly, or an abnormally small head.

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