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More Bad Zika News: Affected Newborn Stayed Infected for Two Months
Source: NBC News
AUG 24 2016, 7:07 PM ET
More Bad Zika News: Affected Newborn Stayed Infected for Two Months
by MAGGIE FOX
A Brazilian baby with brain damage caused by Zika virus stayed infected for more than two months after he was born, doctors reported Wednesday.
That suggests that newborns may continue to be at risk from the virus at a time when their brains are still rapidly growing and developing.
It's another unpleasant surprise about Zika, the once-uninteresting virus that keeps throwing curveballs at researchers.
The baby already had brain damage from the virus, which can infect a growing fetus and which appears to head straight for developing nerve cells.
But the virus continued to actively infect him after he was born, Danielle Oliveira of the University of Sao Paulo and colleagues wrote in a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine.
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More Bad Zika News: Affected Newborn Stayed Infected for Two Months
by MAGGIE FOX
A Brazilian baby with brain damage caused by Zika virus stayed infected for more than two months after he was born, doctors reported Wednesday.
That suggests that newborns may continue to be at risk from the virus at a time when their brains are still rapidly growing and developing.
It's another unpleasant surprise about Zika, the once-uninteresting virus that keeps throwing curveballs at researchers.
The baby already had brain damage from the virus, which can infect a growing fetus and which appears to head straight for developing nerve cells.
But the virus continued to actively infect him after he was born, Danielle Oliveira of the University of Sao Paulo and colleagues wrote in a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/zika-virus-outbreak/more-bad-zika-news-affected-newborn-stayed-infected-two-months-n637326
