www.dailyrxnews.com. The Zika virus has been in the news a lot lately. As more information becomes available, concerns have increased, and rightfully so.. A study from the University of Helsinki found that the fetus of a pregnant woman infected with the Zika virus developed severe brain abnormalities.. Zika virus is spread by the Aedes mosquito. First discovered in Uganda in the 1940s, the virus began to spread around the world in the early 2000s. Zika caused extensive epidemics in the Pacific areas and since 2015 it has spread through South and Central America.
Three papers have been published showing that Zika virus can cross the placenta in mice, replicate in the fetus, and cause microcephaly. In this episode I summarize these data and their implications.. Links to papers discussed:. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.stem.2016.04.017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature18296. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2016.05.008
While the threat from the Zika crisis has calmed, the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention released a study last week exploring the effects of the virus on babies born with brain damage from the virus, who are now toddlers. Pam Belluck from The New York Times joins CBSN to discuss the lasting impact of the Zika virus on toddlers.
Dr. Brian Goldman heads to Brazil, where the Zika virus has caused microcephaly in babies. Hear the full documentary on The Current on CBC Radio One: http://cbc.ca/1.3540497.. The Current on CBC Radio One: http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/. The Current on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cbcthecurrent. The Current on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thecurrentcbc
Doctors confirmed the link between the Zika virus and microcephaly in April. While the most visible sign of microcephaly is the small size of the head, its actually inside the brain where the most damage occurs. (Whitney Leaming, Julio Negron/The Washington Post)
“Zika virus can directly kill neural cells as well as alter their differentiation pathway, making the fetal brain smaller by the end of pregnancy,” said senior researcher Dr. Amilcar Tanuri. By Dennis Thompson. HealthDay Reporter. MONDAY, Oct.
3, 2016 (HealthDay News) A new study shows that Zika virus causes so much varied damage throughout the fetal brain that researchers are suggesting the term “congenital Zika syndrome” be used to describe the numerous birth defects. Microcephaly an underdeveloped skull and brain is the hallmark birth defect caused by Zika, which. “Zika virus can directly kill neural cells as well as alter their differentiation pathway, making the fetal brain smaller by the end of pregnancy,” said senior researcher Dr.
Amilcar Tanuri. Microcephaly—an underdeveloped skull and brain—is the hallmark birth defect caused by Zika, which is mainly transmitted by mosquito bite. But the study of 11 Zika-infected infants in Brazil—the epicenter of the Zika epidemic—found that microcephaly is. “Zika virus can directly kill neural cells as well as alter their differentiation pathway, making the fetal brain smaller by the end of pregnancy,” said senior researcher Dr.
Amilcar Tanuri. He’s head of the Molecular Virology Laboratory at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. That’s how microcephaly develops, he explained. “Zika virus can directly kill neural cells as well as alter their differentiation pathway, making the fetal brain smaller by the end of pregnancy,” said senior researcher Dr.
Amilcar Tanuri. He’s head of the Molecular Virology Laboratory at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. That’s how microcephaly develops, he explained. Researchers are suggesting the term “congenital Zika syndrome” to describe many birth disabilities in the fetal brain, according to a new study.
A particular trait caused by Zika is microcephaly, which is an underdeveloped brain and skull. Researchers studied 11 Zika-infected babies in Brazil, which is the epicenter of the epidemic. A study has found that viruses related to Zika, such as West Nile, can cross the placenta in mice and cause fetal brain damage and death.
Two viruses closely related to Zika – West Nile and Powassan – can spread from an infected pregnant mouse to her fetuses, causing brain damage and fetal death, according to a new study from Washington. One of the frightening side-effects of Zika virus infection in pregnant women is the risk of fetal microcephaly, in which babies are born with abnormally small brains. The multidisciplinary collaboration of Yale scientists revealed that Zika virus kills stem cells in the brain and disrupts the process of creating brain cells.
A fetus that was aborted weeks after the mother was infected with Zika provides striking evidence that the virus causes fetal brain abnormalities, researchers say.
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Signs and Symptoms Zika infection during pregnancy can cause the birth defect microcephaly, which is caused by incomplete brain development and other severe fetal brain defects.
When pregnant women are infected with Zika virus for the first time in pregnancy, it may cause severe damage to the fetus, in particular causing microcephaly, ocular abnormalities, hearing loss, and arthrogryposis.
Zika infection during pregnancy may cause severe birth defects including microcephaly and fetal death, and patients have developed Guillain–Barré syndrome.
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
Zika virus can be spread from a pregnant woman to her fetus and has been linked to a serious birth defect of the brain called microcephaly (Fig. 18.13) in babies of mothers who had Zika virus while pregnant.
While it can’t be definitive proof, it may present the most compelling evidence to date that congenital brain malformations associated with Zika virus infection in pregnancy are a consequence of viral replication in the fetal brain.”
Zika fever in itself is of no serious hazard to people; however, the Zika virus can cause a serious hereditary deformity (microcephaly) in developing fetuses.
Zika infection during pregnancy can cause microcephaly and fetal brain defects, and there has been an increased incidence of Guillain-Barré syndrome in persons following Zika infection.
However, a Zika virus infection during pregnancy can have a devastating effect on a fetus, ruining any chance to have its brain develop normally, as well as sometimes also deforming limbs and causing blindness and deafness.
from Medical Sociology by William C. Cockerham Taylor & Francis, 2017
Kutluk Oktay, MD, FACOG is one of the world's foremost experts in fertility preservation as well as ovarian stimulation and in vitro fertilization for infertility treatments. He developed and performed the world's first ovarian transplantation procedures as well as pioneered new ovarian stimulation protocols for embryo and oocyte freezing for breast and endometrial cancer patients.
How could you live like that, that is inhumane to let someone live like that!! Genetically modified mosquitoes, are the cause, this is chemical warfare, this is the government’s weapon releases on the public!!! This is apart of agenda 21, apart of REX84!!! Treatment should be death!! It’s inhumane to live like that!!!
How could you live like that, that is inhumane to let someone live like that!! Genetically modified mosquitoes, are the cause, this is chemical warfare, this is the government’s weapon releases on the public!!! This is apart of agenda 21, apart of REX84!!! Treatment should be death!! It’s inhumane to live like that!!!