Clik here to view.
Microcephaly: Pernambuco protocol to be used worldwide
WHO Director-General Margaret Chan, who was in Recife city, the state capital, to visit the Integrative Medicine Institute Professor Fernando Figueira (IMIP). Elza Fiúza/Agência BrasilThe World Health...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Government maps assistance to children with microcephaly in Brazil
Baby with microcephaly Divulgação/TV BrasilWith more than 4,000 reported microcephaly cases under investigation, the Ministry of Health began to map the conditions in which babies born with...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Aggravating factors of microcephaly in poorest
Three times a week, Andreia de Andrade, 24, takes a transport in the town where she lives, Belo Jardim, and travels 185 km to Recife to make use of a health facilitySumaia Villela/Agência BrasilSince...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Institute in Bahia creates care group for children with microcephaly
IBR has recently started to provide services specially designed for the specialized treatment of Zika-related microcephalySayonara Moreno - Agência BrasilSmall Geovanna was born four months ago, and is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Update: 88 Microcephaly cases confirmed related to Zika in Brazil
Cláudio Maierovitch, Ministry of Health's Director for Communicable Disease Control Marcelo Camargo/Agência BrasilAn update released by the Ministry of Health Wednesday (Mar. 9) reports 745 cases of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Brazil confirmed 122 Zika-related microcephaly cases
Since the beginning of investigations, 6,671 suspected cases of microcephaly have been reported in Brazil, most in the Northeast region Sumaia Villela/Agência BrasilThe total number of confirmed...
View ArticleBrazil's outbreak: another 102 microcephaly cases confirmed
The Ministry of Health reported Tuesday (Apr. 5) that 1,046 babies were born with microcephaly and other nervous system disorders suggestive of congenital infection since the ministry began...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Brazil offering early stimulation to children with neuropsychomotor conditions
Physical therapist Cynthia Ximenes, of the Association for the Assistance to Disabled Children helps babies with microcephaly and provides mothers with guidance on how to perform exercises at home to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Brazil confirms 1,113 cases of microcephaly
In total, 7,015 suspected cases have been reported since October 2015, and 2,066 cases were dismissed. Sumaia Villela/Agência BrasilFrom October 2015 to April 9, 2016, 1,113 cases of microcephaly were...
View ArticleBrazilian study shows Zika can cause eye disorders in children
A study of 40 children born in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco whose mothers have been infected with Zika virus has verified the link between Zika infection at pregnancy and severe eye disorders in...
View ArticleBrazil government unveils $18 million for Zika research
The federal government issued Thursday (Jun. 2) a bid notice offering funds adding up to $18 million for research studies on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of infections caused by Zika virus...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Suspected cases of microcephaly on the rise in southeast Brazil
Recife -Physical therapist Cynthia Ximenes from an association to aid disabled children examines babies with microcephaly and instructs mothers to do the exercises at home to stimulate the children's...
View ArticleCattle virus found in babies with microcephaly
Brazilian researchers found particles of bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV), besides Zika virus, in brain tissue from fetuses and newborns with microcephaly. The Ministry of Health issued a note Monday...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A year into the Zika epidemic in Brazil
Defining congenital Zika syndrome has not figured out all the uncertainties that still surround the condition.Fiocruz/ArquivoA year ago this Friday (Nov. 11), one of the biggest epidemics in Brazil...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Brazil: Babies of mothers infected with Zika will be monitored for up to 3 years
Babies whose mothers were infected with the Zika virus during pregnancy will be monitored for up to 3 years, even if they have not reported any symptom at birth.Imagens/TV BrasilBabies whose mothers...
View Article
