CDC Confirms Zika Is The Cause Of Severe Brain Defects At Birth

After months of hesitation, U.S. health officials now say that the Zika virus is indeed the cause of severe brain damage in the infants of some women who were infected with the virus during pregnancy.

A CDC review published online Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine describes evidence of what U.S. health officials now call a causal relationship between the virus and a severe form of microcephaly and intracranial calcifications....
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/04/13/474112727/cdc-confirms-zika-is-the-cause-of-severe-brain-defects-at-birth?ft=nprml&f=1001