One amino acid change within a viral structural protein makes the difference between mild cases of brain damage and severe microcephaly in mice. “It was not clear previously how Zika virus evolved ...

Although many of the people with the mutation were found to have severe learning problems, sometimes accompanied by seizures or microcephaly (small heads) others had relatively mild symptoms ...

A recent study highlights the role of cytomegalovirus (CMV) in stillbirths and childhood deaths in low-income countries, ...

Bangladesh has detected a cluster of Zika virus cases for the first time, in a worrying development in a country that is ...