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They went on already six months since it was born, in Pernambuco, the first baby with microcefalia what got a beating neuropediatras to realize a change in the standard in the incident of this anomaly, made a list, up to that time, to infections acquired in the gestation, I eat toxoplasmose, German measles and citomegalov?rus. The baby is twin of other with the size of the normal head. After almost half a year, the event happens again: it are born again twin what intrigue doctors. ? The girl has microcefalia, and the brother presents the size of the normal head. They have one month and a half of life and are at home ?, says the neuropediatra Ana Van der Linden, on the twins of St. Lawrence of the Forest, in the Metropolitan Region of the Reef.
They are born in a phase in which the science keeps on looking for explanations for the advancement of the microcefalia, which has been more and more connected to the infection for the zika in the gestation. Yesterday the State General office of Health informed that 34 cases of microcefalia in Pernambuco were made a list to a zika by detection of the antibody IgM in the liquid cefalorraquidiano (LCR), that what circulates in the marrow and goes up to the brain. In the State, already they are 184 babies with confirmed diagnosis of the malforma??o from August, when the first notifications of the babies began with suspicion of the anomaly.
