CHICAGO, April 13 (Reuters) - After several weeks of study and debate, U.S. health officials concluded that infection with the Zika virus during pregnancy causes the birth defect microcephaly, a ...

HOUSTON (CBSDFW.COM) - Texas has received laboratory confirmation of a past Zika virus infection in a baby recently born with microcephaly in Harris County. The mother traveled from Latin America, ...

Microcephaly is a rare birth defect in which a baby has a head that’s much smaller than average for their age. Some babies with microcephaly have no health problems at all, while others need lifelong ...

Weighing several lines of evidence, scientists at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have determined that Zika virus infection can cause microcephaly and other birth defects.

A multi-omics analysis led by Chinese scientists at Tsinghua University in Beijing has demonstrated that aberrant metabolism of the co-enzyme nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) was responsible ...