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NickB79

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8. Zika has now been implicated in miscarriages in two women in the US, and one US microcephaly case
Sat Feb 13, 2016, 04:30 PM
Feb 2016
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/us-women-miscarry-zika-infection-cdc/story?id=36894542

Officials have also been concerned that the virus could cross the placenta, an organ that develops in a woman's uterus during pregnancy and provides oxygen and nutrients to the fetus. This development could potentially lead to miscarriages.

CDC officials confirmed to ABC News that the women who miscarried were being monitored by their doctors after they were diagnosed with the Zika virus. In total, at least three women in the U.S. have been infected with Zika after returning from abroad with the virus.

One woman in Hawaii gave birth to a child with microcephaly in January. That woman is believed to have been exposed to the Zika virus in Brazil last year. In all three cases the Zika virus was found in the placenta.


Pretty hard to say it's pesticides if women who were never exposed to these pesticides are being affected.

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