In World of Medicine, Mexico's Three-Parent Baby Brought Smile That Wiped Out Trauma of Zika Gokul Bhagabati and Rachel V. Thomas - IANS
go to original December 25, 2016

I got Zika Virus and it was itchy (clairahermet)

The rapid rise of the Zika infections across many parts of the world had a large section of the population mightily worried till its "global emergency" tag was removed, but there was much cheer at the birth of a baby conceived through a "three person" fertility technique first used in Mexico.

The outbreak of the mosquito-borne virus ultimately led to the terrifying discovery that Zika infection during pregnancy causes microcephaly in their babies that results in unusual smallness of their heads and other severe fetal brain defects.

In November, the WHO declared that Zika was no longer a global emergency, but it did not change the global risk assessment even in December. Like most mosquito-borne diseases Zika too is a seasonal disease that could repeatedly return.

A vaccine for Zika therefore seemed to catch the imaginations of medical researchers across the world with several papers reporting positive results for experimental vaccines in animal models and raising hope of an effective vaccine for humans in the near future. In August, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the US National Institute of Health, even announced the launch of a clinical trial of a vaccine candidate intended to prevent Zika virus infection.

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Related: Birth Defects Are Common for Zika-Infected Pregnant Women in the U.S. (The Inquirer and Mirror)

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