Microcephaly Only ‘Tip of Iceberg’ of Zika Complications

SputnikNews.com
29.07.2016

US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) director, Dr. Anthony Fauci warned that Zika-related complications in babies aside from the visible abnormality of microcephaly can also include calcifications, hearing loss, visual abnormalities, joint involvement, and other developmental disorders.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Microcephaly, the incomplete development of the brain in infants, is only one of many possible complications of the Zika virus, US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) director, Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Friday.

>”A study that was done by the CDC [Centers for Disease Control] showed that of the women who are infected in the first trimester, there is a 1 to 13 percent chance that the baby will have microcephaly,” Fauci warned at the Bipartisan Policy Center discussion of Zika. “But remember, microcephaly is the tip of the iceberg.”

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