Tag: babies

Microcephaly

Microcephaly Fact sheetUpdated 14 October 2016 Key facts Microcephaly is a condition where a baby is born with a small head or the head stops growing after birth. Microcephaly is a rare condition. One baby …

How Zika Breaks Into the Brain

When Brazil’s alarming spike in newborns with brain damage was linked to an obscure virus last year, Arnold Kriegstein began to do some reading. Kriegstein, a neurobiologist at the University of California, San Francisco, learned …

Symptoms and Adverse Effects of Zika

The Zika virus is a flavivirus, which is mosquito-borne. It is related to the dengue virus. In 1947, the virus was extracted from the rhesus monkey in Uganda’s Zika forest. In the same forest, the …