AUGUST 7, 2018

1 in 7 Infants Exposed In Utero to Zika Suffer Health Problems Today

By Marie Rosenthal, MS

About 14% of infants exposed to Zika virus in utero have one or more health problems a year later. Some of the problems were not apparent at birth but were identified as the infants grew older, according to a new report from the CDC.

The CDC reviewed surveillance data of 4,800 pregnancies that occurred between 2016 and 2018 in U.S. territories—Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of the Marshall