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Colombia Reports Major Rise in Birth Defect Amid Zika Crisis
Sun, 2016-12-11 09:21 — Kathy GilbeauxCLICK HERE - Columbia - INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD - Zika
nytimes.com - by Donald G. McNeil, Jr. - December 10, 2016
Colombia, which suffered a Zika epidemic that peaked in February, has reported four times as many cases of babies born with microcephaly this year as it did in 2015, providing more proof that the Zika virus causes brain damage in infants.
Because births of microcephalic infants peaked five months after the epidemic did, at about nine times the numbers of the previous July, scientists feel sure that the greatest risk is to babies whose mothers were infected during their first trimesters or early in their second.
The numbers were reported in a study released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and conducted jointly by scientists from the C.D.C. and Colombia’s national health institute.
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