But Dorothy got anxious when a neurologist started examining the baby before asking: “Did you know your child developed Microcephaly?” Confused Achieng, replied, “What is Microcephaly?” ...

Microcephaly is a condition in which a baby’s head is much smaller than normal. Most children with microcephaly also have a small brain, poor motor function, poor speech, and abnormal facial ...

The virus can cause Zika virus disease. In most cases Zika virus disease is a mild illness, but Zika virus can cause a serious birth defect known as microcephaly, in which babies have abnormally small ...

That changed in September, when doctors noticed an uptick of microcephaly, a condition where babies are born with underdeveloped brains, precisely in the places where the Zika outbreak had raged.

Over the past five years, Brazil had an average of 156 microcephaly cases annually. A laboratory exam of a baby with microcephaly and other congenital illnesses performed at the Evandro Chagas ...

A significant number of the babies of these women are born with microcephaly, a rare disorder in which a baby’s head is much smaller than normal. This defect can lead to developmental problems ranging ...

This story appears in the August 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. If you took a glance around Anthony James’s office, it wouldn’t be hard to guess what he does for a living.

Zika virus infection during pregnancy can cause microcephaly, a neurological disorder that results in babies being born with abnormally small heads. Microcephaly can cause severe developmental ...

Microcephaly, a birth defect where a baby's head is smaller than expected when compared to babies of the same sex and age, is also more common in children around the region than in children from ...