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Iowa girl's small head traced to genetics, not Zika
Tony Leys, tleys@dmreg.com 9:53 a.m. CDT April 5, 2016 BLOOMFIELD, Ia. ? Keera Galindo has lived 15 years with an unusually small head but only a few months with a public spotlight on the surprisingly common condition.
Keera and scores of other Iowa children have microcephaly, meaning their brains and skulls are undersize. Few Americans had heard of the condition until last winter. That changed as news reports filled with alarming images from South and Central America, where babies are being born with a severe form of microcephaly after their mothers were infected with a mosquito-borne virus called Zika.
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The doctor who made the diagnosis is William Dobyns, a professor of pediatrics and neurology at the University of Washington. Dobyns said in an interview that if you count mild cases of microcephaly, it?s more common than autism but gets much less attention and research money....
Tony Leys, tleys@dmreg.com 9:53 a.m. CDT April 5, 2016 BLOOMFIELD, Ia. ? Keera Galindo has lived 15 years with an unusually small head but only a few months with a public spotlight on the surprisingly common condition.
Keera and scores of other Iowa children have microcephaly, meaning their brains and skulls are undersize. Few Americans had heard of the condition until last winter. That changed as news reports filled with alarming images from South and Central America, where babies are being born with a severe form of microcephaly after their mothers were infected with a mosquito-borne virus called Zika.
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The doctor who made the diagnosis is William Dobyns, a professor of pediatrics and neurology at the University of Washington. Dobyns said in an interview that if you count mild cases of microcephaly, it?s more common than autism but gets much less attention and research money....