{"id":6630,"date":"2019-03-05T14:00:27","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T19:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=6630"},"modified":"2019-03-25T20:08:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T00:08:16","slug":"study-confirms-and-quantifies-zika-microcephaly-link-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/study-confirms-and-quantifies-zika-microcephaly-link-in-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Study confirms and quantifies Zika\u2013microcephaly link in Brazil <img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/\u00a0http:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosmedicine\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pmed.1002755\" target=\"_blank\"><em>PLOS Medicine<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Published\u00a0March 5, 2019 14:00 ET<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/emb_releases\/2019-03\/p-sca022719.php\" target=\"_blank\">News release<\/a> from PLOS)<br \/>\nWomen infected with Zika virus early in pregnancy are almost 17 times more likely to have a child with microcephaly, abnormal smallness of the head.\u00a0Researchers used national reporting databases in Brazil to assemble information on nine known or hypothesized causes of microcephaly for all births in the country between 2015 and 2017. They found a consistent association between Zika infection during pregnancy and microcephaly that was not modified by other viruses or environmental exposures.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Canadian co-author: <\/strong>Isaac Bogoch, University of Toronto &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:isaac.bogoch@uhn.ca\" target=\"_blank\">isaac.bogoch@uhn.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PLOS Medicine Published\u00a0March 5, 2019 14:00 ET (News release from PLOS) Women infected with Zika virus early in pregnancy are almost 17 times more likely to have a child with microcephaly, abnormal smallness of the head.\u00a0Researchers used national reporting databases in Brazil to assemble information on nine known or hypothesized causes of microcephaly for all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1IW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6634,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6630\/revisions\/6634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}