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Birth defects seen in 6 percent of US pregnancies with Zika

 

NEW YORK -- A US study of pregnant women with Zika finds that 6 percent of the pregnancies resulted in birth defects. The rate was nearly twice as high for women infected early in pregnancy.

 

The authors say the US findings fit with research from other countries.

 

All 442 women were infected outside the United States, or had sex with someone who got Zika in an outbreak area. Zika is spread primarily by mosquitoes and has mostly affected the Caribbean and Latin America.

 

Birth defects were seen in 21 babies and in five miscarriages, stillbirths or abortions.

 

 


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