One in 12 Infants with Zika Have Birth Defects in U.S. Territories

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About one in 12 fetuses or infants of expecting women with Zika infection be subjected to Zika-associated descent imperfections in the U.S. quarters subsuming Puerto Rico, which is undeviating with prior data on Zika infection from U.S. says in April, CDC researchers debauched.

There were 5% of infants with sustain of Zika-associated descent go overs in pregnancies conveyed to geneses with laboratory-confirmed Zika virus infection, which wax to 8% of infants whose maws had proved sooner trimester infections, appeared Carrie K. Shapiro-Mendoza, PhD, of the CDC, and husbands, writing in an at unveil of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Communication.