States Chronicle - Latest Breaking World News

Thursday, January 28, 2021
Log in
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Authors
  • Investor Relations
  • Privacy
  • Terms of Use
  • Latest News
    • Right Colors for your Skin Tone
    • MOST ACTIVE NASDAQ After-Hours
    • iPhone 5C Release Date
    • Samsung Galaxy S5 Release Date
    • The History of the Atkins Diet

Birth Defects Are Ordinary in Zika-Infected Women

December 19, 2016 By Deborah Cobing 1 Comment

Email, RSS Follow
Microcephaly in babies

CDC proved that all babies born by Zika-infected pregnant women had birth defects.

STATES CHRONICLE – American pregnant women who got infected by Zika virus gave birth to babies having birth defects. The new report developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has proved that in the United States a woman infected with Zika gives birth to a baby who has at least one congenital disability.

This registry represents a partnership between the local and state health departments in the continental US and Hawaii and the CDC which was prepared in January bound to monitor pregnant women infected with Zika. The report was recently published in JAMA. It offers details referring to about 442 Zika-infected women who finalized their pregnancies between the period starting on January 15 and ending on September 22.

Approximately 26 of these pregnant females, meaning 6% of them, gave birth to kids who have at least a Zika-related congenital disability. These defects mainly involved microcephaly which determined abnormalities at the level of the brain. Among females who were infected with the terrible virus during their first trimester, 11% of them reported having babies which presented Zika-connected birth defects.

Statistics show that Zika poses the most significant risk early during pregnancy. Officials at CDC argued that the discoveries demonstrate that the rates of fetal impairments and microcephaly linked with Zika virus proved to be similar among babies born in the US with those born in Brazil. The mothers of these children might have contracted the virus while traveling.

Studies have shown that Brazil represents the epicenter of the outbreak of the terrible virus. On the other hand, Tom Frieden, the director of CDC, argued that this evidence annihilates the idea that Brazil was somehow different from other infected areas. All these infected women contracted the virus while traveling, being outside the mainland of the US, or through sex with a person who was already infected.

Margret Honein, the chief of the congenital disabilities branch at the CDC, pointed out that the countries where those women were exposed to Zika virus. The list contains Venezuela, Marshall Islands, Mexico, Honduras, Haiti, Guatemala, El Salvador, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Brazil, Belize, and Barbados. Eighteen out of 26 babies with birth defects were diagnosed with microcephaly.

This number is higher than the prevalence of microcephaly in the US which was usually estimated to affect 7 out of 10,000 births.

Image courtesy of: wikipedia

Email, RSS Follow

Filed Under: Health

About Deborah Cobing

The two C’s that best describe Deborah are calm and calculated. When she was younger she was fiercely determined to become a doctor. That was until she actually got into medicine school. After two years of university she realized that she wasn’t quite cut out for the job. She quickly halted her studies and decided to pursue a career in writing instead.

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 30 other subscribers

Doom and MiniDoom 2

Volunteer-Based Mexican Studio Releases Sidescrolling Doom Clone

March 12, 2018 By Georgia Dawson Leave a Comment

Chinese Mom and locked iPhone.

Toddler Locks Chinese Mom Out of Phone for Half a Century

March 9, 2018 By James Faulkner Leave a Comment

Alexa laughing

Amazon Alexa Laughing out of the Blue Puzzles Engineers

March 8, 2018 By Jack M. Robinson Leave a Comment

Flippy and the Burgers

Meet Flippy, World’s First Fast-Food Robotic Chef

March 6, 2018 By Georgia Dawson Leave a Comment

System Shock

System Shock Remastered Delayed, Nightdive Studios CEO Announces

February 19, 2018 By Janet Vasquez Leave a Comment

Sea of Thieves.

Sea of Thieves Optimized for Low-End PCs

February 14, 2018 By Georgia Dawson Leave a Comment

Sony and VR

Sony Touts New Generation of VR Controllers

January 31, 2018 By Deborah Cobing Leave a Comment

YouTube

YouTube Stiffens Its Monetization Policy to Discourage Spammers and Bad Actors

January 18, 2018 By Georgia Dawson Leave a Comment

Google Art Doppelganger

Google App Can Now Show Your Art Doppelganger

January 15, 2018 By Troy Rubenson Leave a Comment

YouTube mobile app logo on a smartphone

YouTube Now Enables Vertical Videos on iOS

December 24, 2017 By Janet Vasquez Leave a Comment

Samsung Galaxy S2 with a shattered screen

Cracked Smartphone Screens Are a Thing of the Past – Self-Healing Polymer Gets Fixed Just by Pressing It

December 20, 2017 By Janet Vasquez Leave a Comment

Bing logo on a white background

Bing Improves Its Search Results with the Help of AI and Reddit Integration

December 16, 2017 By Janet Vasquez Leave a Comment

White hashtag on a blue background

Follow Your Interests on Instagram by Directly Following Hashtags

December 14, 2017 By Janet Vasquez Leave a Comment

Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge on a leather seat

Samsung Galaxy Smartphones Make More People Happier as Compared to iPhones

December 13, 2017 By Janet Vasquez Leave a Comment

Related Articles

  • image of retina

    Laser Pointer Makes Hole in Little Boy’s Retina

    Jun 21, 2018
  • person playing a video game

    World Health Organization Officially Recognizes Gaming Disorder

    Jun 19, 2018
  • two robot hands

    Sex Robots Don’t, In Fact, Provide Any Heath Benefits (Study)

    Jun 6, 2018
  • women's health initiative logo

    Some Breast Cancer Patients Can Skip Chemotherapy (Study)

    Jun 4, 2018
  • bowl of vitamin supplements

    Vitamin and Mineral Supplements are Useless (Study)

    May 31, 2018
  • two cockroaches on a leaf

    Cockroach Milk, The Latest Superfood Trend

    May 29, 2018
  • seafood on platter

    Seafood Boosts Libido and Fertility (Study)

    May 25, 2018
  • Vitamin D pills

    Vitamin D Therapy to Treat Diabetes and Cancer (Study)

    May 14, 2018
  • woman with a runny nose

    Woman’s Runny Nose Was Actually Brain Fluid Leak

    May 8, 2018
  • children running

    Children are in Better Shape than Athletes (Study)

    Apr 25, 2018

Categories

  • Business
  • Entertainment
  • Health
  • Lifestyle
  • Markets
  • National News
  • Nature
  • News
  • Politics
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Uncategorized
  • World

Copyright © 2021 statechronicle.com

About · Privacy Policy · Terms of Use · Contact

This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Learn more.