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06-09-2017, 06:51 PM
New CDC study shows just how serious a threat Zika is to pregnant women
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Researchers are still scrambling to learn how the Zika virus spreads and what we can do to stop it. But they're increasingly certain about one thing: Zika poses a serious threat to pregnant women and their babies.
The top U.S. health agency found this week (https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2017/p0608-zika-data-first-trimester.html) that women who are infected with Zika while pregnant face a substantial risk of delivering a baby with brain ab**rmalities, vision problems, small heads (k**wn as microcephaly), and other scary birth defects.
SEE ALSO: How the Zika virus stealthily swept the Americas (http://mashable.com/2017/05/24/zika-virus-ge**me-sequencing/?utm_cid=a-seealso&utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)
Serious defects were seen in about 8 percent of babies, or 1 in every 12, who were born to pregnant women with Zika infection during the first trimester, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said, based on data from U.S. territories.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/06/09/cdc-zika-birth-defects-study/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Researchers are still scrambling to learn how the Zika virus spreads and what we can do to stop it. But they're increasingly certain about one thing: Zika poses a serious threat to pregnant women and their babies.
The top U.S. health agency found this week (https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2017/p0608-zika-data-first-trimester.html) that women who are infected with Zika while pregnant face a substantial risk of delivering a baby with brain ab**rmalities, vision problems, small heads (k**wn as microcephaly), and other scary birth defects.
SEE ALSO: How the Zika virus stealthily swept the Americas (http://mashable.com/2017/05/24/zika-virus-ge**me-sequencing/?utm_cid=a-seealso&utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)
Serious defects were seen in about 8 percent of babies, or 1 in every 12, who were born to pregnant women with Zika infection during the first trimester, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said, based on data from U.S. territories.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/06/09/cdc-zika-birth-defects-study/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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