A baby was born at the Donna A. Sanzari Women’s Hospital with microcephaly, as a result of the mother contracting the Zika virus internationally. The mother, who is visiting the United States, and her baby have been receiving exceptional care at HackensackUMC.
CBS News medical contributor Dr. Tara Narula joins CBSN’s Josh Elliott to talk about the growing Zika fears in the United States after the birth of a baby with Zika-related birth defects in New Jersey.
A baby was born at the Donna A. Sanzari Women’s Hospital with microcephaly, as a result of the mother contracting the Zika virus internationally. The mother, who is visiting the United States, and her baby have been receiving exceptional care at HackensackUMC.
Hackensack University Medical Center confirmed that a baby was born on May 31, 2016, with microcephaly, as a result of the mother contracting the Zika virus in Honduras. (Video by Andre Malok | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com)
The first baby with microcephaly, a birth defect linked to the Zika virus, has been born at a New Jersey hospital, officials say. CBSN’s Elaine Quijano has the details.
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Medicaid can be used to cover mosquito repellent to prevent the spread of the Zika virus, federal regulators told state and private Medicaid officials in a letter sent Wednesday.. Coverage of repellent — when prescribed by a health professional — with the federal matching dollars given other Medicaid-covered treatments is the primary change in the new Department of Health and Human Services guidance. The letter is intended to clarify how low-income people covered by Medicaid can protect themselves so they don’t contract the virus or get tested and treated in case they do. HHS alerted about 50,000 people involved in Medicaid plans.. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says Zika is the definitive cause of an epidemic of birth defects in Brazil and other some countries with outbreaks of the virus. It also causes Guillain-Barré syndrome, a rare condition in which the body attacks its own nerve cells, causing paralysis. The virus is largely spread by mosquitoes, can sometimes be transmitted sexually or through blood transfusions.. Be Smarter. Faster. More Colorful and get the full story at http://usat.ly/1O6gfYJ. ***************************************************************************. Want even more? Subscribe to USA TODAY’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/USATODAY?sub_confirmation=1. Like USA TODAY on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/usatoday. Follow USA TODAY on Twitter: https://twitter.com/USATODAY. Follow USA TODAY on Instagram: https://instagram.com/usatoday/. ****************. Humankind: Amazing moments that give us hope ➤ http://bit.ly/2MrPxvd. Humankind: Stories worth sharing ➤ http://bit.ly/2FWYXNP. Animalkind: Cute, cuddly & curious animals ➤ http://bit.ly/2GdNf2j. Just the FAQs: When news breaks, we break it down for you ➤ http://bit.ly/2Dw3Wnh. The Wall: An in-depth examination of Donald Trump’s border wall ➤ http://bit.ly/2sksl8F
WEDNESDAY, June 1, 2016 (HealthDay News) A woman from Honduras who apparently became infected with the Zika virus in her home country gave birth Tuesday in a New Jersey hospital to a baby girl. HealthDay Reporter. WEDNESDAY, June 1, 2016 (HealthDay News) A woman from Honduras who apparently became infected with the Zika virus in her home country gave birth Tuesday in a New Jersey hospital to a baby girl with the birth defect characteristic of the disease, officials said. The baby has an abnormally small head, a condition called microcephaly that also results in an underdeveloped brain, hospital. A Honduran woman infected with Zika gave birth in New Jersey to a baby girl with birth defects caused by the virus, her doctor said Wednesday.
WEDNESDAY, June 1, 2016 (HealthDay News) A woman from Honduras who apparently became infected with the Zika virus in her home country gave birth Tuesday in a New Jersey hospital to a baby girl with the birth defect characteristic of the disease, officials said. WEDNESDAY, June 1, 2016 (HealthDay News) A woman from Honduras who apparently became infected with the Zika virus in her home country gave birth Tuesday in a New Jersey hospital to a baby girl with the birth defect characteristic of the disease, officials said. A baby with Zika virus was born at a New Jersey hospital yesterday, exhibiting associated birth defects like low birth weight and microcephaly.
She is the first confirmed case with these birth. (Newser) – It’s believed to be a first in the continental US, and it was probably inevitable. A baby girl with severe microcephaly was born at a hospital in Hackensack, NJ, on Tuesday to a mother. “A woman from Honduras who apparently became infected with the Zika virus in her home country gave birth Tuesday in a New Jersey hospital to a baby girl with the birth defect characteristic of the disease. A woman visiting Bergen County from Colombia in January was the first confirmed case of the Zika illness in New Jersey, according to the state Department of Health.
The baby born at Hackensack. New Jersey’s logged 18 cases of travel-related Zika. State health officials urge women who are pregnant or planning to get pregnant to avoid traveling to Zika-affected countries.
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ZIKA VIRUS Pregnant women infected with the Zika virus gave birth to babies with microcephaly and severe neurologic abnormalities.
Zika infection during pregnancy may cause severe birth defects including microcephaly and fetal death, and patients have developed Guillain–Barré syndrome.
She has had no previous antenatal care, fearing that if her condition had been revealed she would not have been permitted entry into the United States.
Though not typically life-threatening, Zika is known to cause microcephaly, an incurable form of brain damage in newborns whose mothers have been infected with the virus during pregnancy.
During April 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) concluded “… that Zika virus is a cause of microcephaly and other severe brain defects”15 Infection with the Zika virus increases the risk of adverse health outcomes; not all infected pregnant females will give birth to infants who have
However, Guillain–Barré syndrome can be a complication, and during pregnancy Zika can lead to stillbirth and is associated with congenital abnormalities, including fetal microcephaly.
The long-term consequences of birth defects and brain damage to babies born with Zika-related birth defects is anticipated to be devastating, with over 1700 cases of microcephaly reported in Northeastern Brazil alone.
A doctor owed no duty of care to a severely disabled child to warn her mother of the real risk of profound disability given her exposure to the rubella virus in early pregnancy.
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Anychance, Zika &/or Enterovirus being part of a Staph. Pnuemonia Outbreak (biofilm related, which may also cause microcephaly) diagnosable through sputum culture? With all the Medical Gaslighting, Upcoding, Medicare Fraud, and doctors refusing to give inexpensive medical test while ignoring facts, doesn’t seem far fetched. Plus couldn’t antivirals be used on viruses. Remember Fared Fata M.D. from Detroit MI, or Michael J. Reinstein, MD from Chicago IL.
Of all the dozens of things out there that can cause microcephaly, why are these doctors rushing to put the blame on Zika? How convenient!! What evidence do they really have? Medicine sometimes looks worse than voodoo.
These people that are leaving the country and comeing back are bringing the virus back with them. They are helping it spread. If they have it and get bit by a mosquito that doesn’t ha bet it then the mosquito will get it and spread like wild fire.
Anychance, Zika &/or Enterovirus being part of a Staph. Pnuemonia Outbreak
(biofilm related, which may also cause microcephaly) diagnosable through
sputum culture? With all the Medical Gaslighting, Upcoding, Medicare
Fraud, and doctors refusing to give inexpensive medical test while ignoring facts, doesn’t seem far fetched. Plus couldn’t antivirals be used on viruses. Remember Fared
Fata M.D. from Detroit MI, or Michael J. Reinstein, MD from Chicago IL.
Of all the dozens of things out there that can cause microcephaly, why are these doctors rushing to put the blame on Zika? How convenient!! What evidence do they really have? Medicine sometimes looks worse than voodoo.
These people that are leaving the country and comeing back are bringing the virus back with them. They are helping it spread. If they have it and get bit by a mosquito that doesn’t ha bet it then the mosquito will get it and spread like wild fire.