Like most of the pregnant population in the Western Hemisphere,I’ve spent the past weeks unusually engrossed by the spread of the Zika virus. In case you possess not been joining me in Googling “Zika” while clutching your baby bump in terror, here’s the gist: the virus, or spread by mosquitoes and multiplying in the Americas at a rate the World Health Organization deems “explosive,” appears to be linked to an uptick of microcephaly in infants. In South and Central America, pregnant women are getting bitten by bugs (mosquitoes esteem to dine on pregnant women because we’re swollen with blood) and their babies are often arriving with tiny brains, and the condition either ensuring they need a very advanced level of care or are unable to live long after birth. How exactly Zika causes microcephaly remains unclear,although we can assume the virus crosses the placenta.
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Source: gawker.com