Ana Gabriela do Prado Paschoal, 24 years old Brazilian woman sitting at the table space and the medical examination to be heard are heartbreaking. "Your baby's head is smaller than normal," said Dr. Paschoal. Ana stated to have contracted the virus Zika when she was pregnant.
His little daughter, Maria Luiza, who is now 3 months old, were found to have lesions on his brain. His muscles are stiffer than other normal child, Dr. Paschoal said. More serious complications likely to occur.
The scale and severity of prenatal damage by Zika virus is now considered much worse than birth defects associated microcephaly, a condition marked abnormalities in infants with a tiny head and brain size.
Scanning, imaging and autopsy showed that Zika seriously undermine the fetal brain. Creating size shrinks or destroys brain lobes that control thought, vision and other basic functions. This is hampering the development of the brain has not yet formed.
"It's not just microcephaly are usually marked with tiny little head," said Jeanne Sheffield, director of maternal and child medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, who has been undergoing counseling pregnant women about microcephaly for two decades.
Microcephaly, a rare birth defect that affects about 6 of 10,000 babies in the US, often associated with developmental delay and intellectual disability. But few children were affected.
However, Zika cases occurring in Brazil, almost all involve significant brain damage.
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