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Malformations in babies is 20 times greater among mothers who had zika

Malformations in babies is 20 times greater among mothers who had zika

According to a study by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the incidence of a number of birth defects in babies of mothers who had zika is 20 times greater than the general average.

The analysis was performed with births occurring between 2013 and 2014. The researchers chose three American regions (Massachusetts, North Carolina and Atlanta, Georgia) where zika had not yet arrived.

In this period, the incidence of microcephaly and other brain problems, neural tube, ocular, and central nervous system defects occurred in all of the cities used for research. about 3 per thousand births.

The researchers decided to perform another sampling and collected data from mothers who had zika between January 22 and September 15, 2016. The result showed that the occurrence increased in an unusual way, every thousand births 60 had cerebral incidence.

During the research, there were 442 cases of pregnant women with zika. Among them, 26 babies or fetuses presented some of the congenital defects. "This data demonstrates the importance of population-based surveillance for the interpretation of numbers on birth defects potentially related to zika virus infection," says the US Department of Health's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.


Smoking can lead to failure of dental implants

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Childhood Cancer Survivors May Suffer More With Depression in Adult Life

Childhood Cancer Survivors May Suffer More With Depression in Adult Life

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