Birth Defects

• India reports more than 100 Zika virus cases in popular tourist state

  India is grappling with an outbreak of the mosquito-borne Zika virus in Rajasthan, a northern state popular with tourists.

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  Oct 22, 2018
  
• Inverary mother raising awareness about pediatric strokes

  Katie Buckley's son was diagnosed with a stroke shortly after birth, and now she's raising awareness about the harrowing - and difficult to diagnose - condition.

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  Mar 30, 2018
  
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• Pregnant women with Zika virus have 7% chance of baby with birth defects: study

  Seven per cent of babies born to women infected with Zika during pregnancy have birth defects, according to a new study.

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  Mar 15, 2018
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• Mosquito species capable of carrying Zika virus caught in Windsor, Ont.

  Despite the development, the health unit said there's no reason to worry about an increased risk of Zika virus in the region.

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  Aug 23, 2017
• Canadian doctors save baby Sebastian Havill in utero with world-first procedure

  When Baby Sebastian Havill entered the world, he’d already had two surgeries performed on him – one done on the tiny infant’s beating heart while he was still in his mother’s womb.

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  Jul 26, 2017
• 1 in 10 U.S. moms infected with Zika have babies with birth defects: report

  According to the CDC, nearly 1,000 pregnant women in the U.S. had some evidence of a Zika infection.

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  Apr 5, 2017
• Mother decides to carry baby without brain to term to donate organs

  Keri Young feels the kicks, has the hiccups and can hear her daughter's heart beat but unlike most mothers, she won't get to see her grow up.

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  Feb 23, 2017
• First Canadian case of Zika-related defects in fetus

  Canada's public health agency has confirmed the country's first case of Zika-related defects in a fetus.

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  Aug 12, 2016
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• Baby with Zika-related microcephaly born at New Jersey hospital

  Officials at Hackensack University Medical Center say the 31-year-old woman from Honduras delivered the baby girl through a cesarean section Tuesday.

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  Jun 1, 2016
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• Zika virus causes microcephaly and other birth defects: CDC

  After months of speculation, the Zika virus has been confirmed as a cause of microcephaly and other birth defects, U.S. health officials say.

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  Apr 13, 2016