Though the woman only suffered mild symptoms from the illness, the virus infected her little one through the womb and caused "severe microcephaly". The mum, from Denmark, went on holiday to Phuket ...

Microcephaly, a birth defect where a baby's ... Sergei and Ina Chalyadinsky have three children, one of whom has a severe disability. Liza, age 6, was born with a tumor on her head, severe brain ...

Zika has now been linked to severe microcephaly birth defects when pregnant women become infected. Nearly 2,000 cases have been confirmed this year, mostly in Brazil, and the health scare has ...

and in the most severe cases, microcephaly,” a condition that is linked to a range of complications, including developmental delays, intellectual disability, and predisposition to seizures.

Although many of the people with the mutation were found to have severe learning problems, sometimes accompanied by seizures or microcephaly (small heads) others had relatively mild symptoms ...