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One in 10 Pregnant Women With Zika in U.S. Have Babies With Birth Defects
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submitted by Albert Gomez
nytimes.com - by Pam Belluck - April 4, 2017
One in 10 pregnant women in the continental United States with a confirmed Zika infection had a baby with brain damage or other serious birth defects, according to the most comprehensive report to date on American pregnancies during the Zika crisis.
The report, published Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, also provided more evidence that the risk of birth defects was greater when women were infected in the first trimester of pregnancy. Fifteen percent of women with confirmed Zika infection in the first trimester had babies with birth defects, the report found.
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US: 51 Babies Born With Zika-Related Birth Defects Last Year
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npr.org - by Michaeleen Doucleff - April 4, 2017
Health officials have published the first comprehensive view of Zika-linked birth defects occurring in the U.S.
The study is the largest so far to estimate the risk of severe birth defects from Zika infections in pregnant women, researchers report Wednesday in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report,
"Although Zika may seem like last year's problem, or an issue confined to Brazil, there have been more than 1,600 cases in pregnant women reported here in the U.S.," says the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Anne Schuchat.
And the cases aren't slowing down.
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Zika and Pregnancy in the U.S.