As Zika virus infections continue to spread, with cases reported in parts of Florida and southeast Asia, most people are familiar with the virus’s most damaging effects: on the developing fetus during ...

Babies exposed to the Zika virus as fetuses are more than 50 times more likely to be born with abnormally small heads and underdeveloped brains — a condition called microcephaly — as other babies, ...

Of the many mysteries that remain about the Zika virus and its attack on the Americas, perhaps the most puzzling one relates to the bizarre distribution of babies born with Zika-induced microcephaly.

The Zika virus might have been just another mosquito-borne infection—only on our radar if we lived in or planned to visit a tropical setting, much like yellow fever, dengue fever, or Chikungunya—if ...

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- After news that a baby was born in Harris County with Microcephaly associated with the Zika Virus, a Houston-area mother is shedding light on what it's like living with the defect.

GUARENAS, Venezuela – Deep inside a hilly Venezuelan slum, Ericka Torres rocks her three-month-old son Jesus to soothe his near-constant crying. Jesus was diagnosed with microcephaly, a birth defect ...

Scott and Gwen Hartley's daughters have a neurological condition. — -- From the very beginning, Scott and Gwen Hartley from Kansas knew there was something very different about their daughter, ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — When an Austin family learned their baby girl had Microcephaly, doctors braced them for a future of limitations. It’s a birth defect where a baby’s head is smaller than expected, ...

A first-of-its-kind study is strengthening the case that Zika is the culprit behind Brazil’s mysterious surge in babies born with microcephaly. Preliminary results from a study commissioned by the ...

Microcephaly in fetuses of mothers infected with the Zika virus is undetectable via prenatal imaging early in pregnancy, a study has shown. In a case series of pregnancies affected by Zika virus ...

The rare birth defect is associated with the mosquito-borne Zika virus. — -- At the center of the Zika virus crisis is the rise of a dangerous condition called microcephaly. The rare birth defect ...