Birth defect rate pegged at 7 percent for babies born to Zika-infected women

(Reuters Health) – A pregnant woman who becomes ill from the Zika virus faces a 7 percent chance that her child will be born with birth defects, and that risk jumps to nearly 13 percent if she becomes ill during the first trimester, a new study conducted in French territories in the Americas has concluded.


Source: Reuters Medical News

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