Although Zika virus infection is rarely fatal in healthy individuals, it poses a significant threat to pregnant women, as it can cause severe fetal complications such as microcephaly, leading to ...

Health experts are warning about a tropical disease spread by midges and mosquitoes, recently detected in US travelers ...

The busy spring break travel season could be especially risky for pregnant women.

However, Zika virus infection can also cause serious fetal complications when infecting pregnant women, such as microcephaly, leading to increased risk of death and intellectual disability in the ...

Although Zika virus infection is rarely fatal in healthy individuals, it poses a significant threat to pregnant women, as it can cause severe fetal complications such as microcephaly, leading to an ...

In 2015–2016, Zika virus emerged in the Americas and rapidly spread throughout the region and beyond, resulting in a devastating epidemic of infants born with small heads (microcephaly ... Zika virus ...

Objective: To evaluate the effect of syphilis and urogenital diseases (SUD) during pregnancy on developmental defects of enamel (DDE) using causal inference models. Results: SUD did not interfere in ...

Postnatal growth retardation and microcephaly were documented in all cases where data ... We broaden the clinical spectrum of fetal presentation of Vici Syndrome to include dysgenesis of the brainstem ...

Feb. 21, 2025 — Infection with Zika virus in pregnancy can lead to neurological disorders, fetal abnormalities and fetal death. Until now, how the virus manages to cross the placenta, which ...