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Research provides clues to how Zika virus breaches the placental barrier
Research provides clues to how Zika virus breaches the placental barrier
New research reveals that in pregnant women, Zika virus infection damages certain cells that affect placental formation and function.Furthermore, herpes simplex virus-2 (HSV-2) infection augments placental sensitivity to Zika virus by enhancing the expression of receptors that allow Zika virus to enter cells.The findings may help explain the mechanism by which Zika virus breaches the placental barrier to access the fetus.
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As babies born to mothers infected with the Zika virus turn 1, health problems mount
As babies born to mothers infected with the Zika virus turn 1, health problems mount
RECIFE, Brazil (AP) — Two weeks shy of his first birthday, doctors began feeding Jose Wesley Campos through a nose tube because swallowing problems had left him dangerously underweight.Learning how to feed is the baby's latest struggle as medical problems mount for him and many other infants born with small heads to mothers infected with the Zika virus in Brazil."It hurts me to see him like this.
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Zika virus highly likely to spread in Asia, says WHO
Zika virus highly likely to spread in Asia, says WHO
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Singaporean authorities have been fumigating areas where mosquitoes breedZika infections are "highly likely" to keep spreading in Asia, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned.Hundreds of cases of the virus have been reported in Singapore while two cases of Zika-linked microcephaly have already been confirmed in Thailand.The mosquito-borne virus has been detected in 70 countries worldwide, at least 19 in the Asia Pacific region.
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