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Infectious Disease Expert: ?So Much We Don?t Know? About Effects of Zika in Pregnancy
By Lauretta Brown | June 29, 2016 | 10:31 AM EDT
(CNSNews.com) ? Dr. Jeanne Sheffield, an expert in pregnancy and infectious disease and the director of maternal-fetal medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital, stressed that ?there is so much we don?t know? about the effects of the Zika virus in pregnancy...
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?We don?t know what the transmission risk truly is...
She added that if a child is infected and tests positive for Zika, ?how many of them are actually going to one, have symptoms and two, what are the long term consequences? What are these kids who look absolutely normal at birth - everything is perfect at birth - are they going to be developmentally delayed at age two or age five? We have no idea.?
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Sheffield also emphasized that the birth defects found in Zika infected infants were ?not just a small head? characteristic of microcephaly but also ?growth restrictions, so they weren?t growing normally. It was calcifications of the brain. It was other central nervous system abnormalities, fluid abnormalities, multiple things we?re seeing, so again not just a small head.?
Another alarming finding Dr. Sheffield mentioned was the transmission of the virus from mother to infant in all trimesters of pregnancy.
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http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article...t-so-much-we-dont-know-effects-zika-pregnancy
By Lauretta Brown | June 29, 2016 | 10:31 AM EDT
(CNSNews.com) ? Dr. Jeanne Sheffield, an expert in pregnancy and infectious disease and the director of maternal-fetal medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital, stressed that ?there is so much we don?t know? about the effects of the Zika virus in pregnancy...
...
?We don?t know what the transmission risk truly is...
She added that if a child is infected and tests positive for Zika, ?how many of them are actually going to one, have symptoms and two, what are the long term consequences? What are these kids who look absolutely normal at birth - everything is perfect at birth - are they going to be developmentally delayed at age two or age five? We have no idea.?
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Sheffield also emphasized that the birth defects found in Zika infected infants were ?not just a small head? characteristic of microcephaly but also ?growth restrictions, so they weren?t growing normally. It was calcifications of the brain. It was other central nervous system abnormalities, fluid abnormalities, multiple things we?re seeing, so again not just a small head.?
Another alarming finding Dr. Sheffield mentioned was the transmission of the virus from mother to infant in all trimesters of pregnancy.
...
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article...t-so-much-we-dont-know-effects-zika-pregnancy