A new study from Brazil provides an early snapshot of what the future could hold for babies whose mothers were believed to have been infected with the Zika virus. Microcephaly caused by Zika was especially cruel to the babies in the study, for whom a severe form of disease progressed more rapidly than usually seen in babies with microcephaly due to other causes. Even when babies exposed to the Zika virus in the uterus are born with normal-sized heads, they might suffer other forms of brain damage.
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