New Jersey doc: Baby born to mom with Zika looks ‘affected’

The baby also has calcification and dilated ventricles in her head, according to CNN, which added that the mother is in good health.

The child’s 31 year-old mother was reportedly visiting the USA from Honduras before being admitted to the emergency room at a Hackensack, New Jersey hospital on Friday.

Reporter Reporter David Lee Miller said of the mother, “She was exposed to the zika virus while living in her native Honduras. she was in the United States visiting extended family”.

Doctors first examined her when she came to the medical center Friday.

“It’s a hard day in dealing with the emotional aspects of what the mother is going through”, he said.

The baby girl was born in New Jersey this week with abnormal eyes and severe microcephaly, a congenital condition where infants have abnormally small heads and stunted brain development.

“I wasn’t surprised. I thought it was only a matter of time”, said Dr. Peter Wenger, Pediatric Immunology and Infectious Disease at the Children’s Hospital at St. Peter’s University Hospital.

The baby was also born with hearing and intestinal issues, the hospital said. Here’s what the Centers for Disease Control says is the best way to react. In the run-up to the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, some athletes are speaking out about the potential threat the Zika virus poses to those competing this summer.

“With warmer temperatures on their way, conditions favourable to populations of the Aedes aegypti mosquito that spreads the infection mean that areas in the southern and eastern United States are most vulnerable to transmission of the virus”.

Asked about the baby girl’s prognosis, Piwoz said: “It’s too early to prognosticate in that form about what this particular child’s life expectancy will be”. Pregnant women and those who are planning to conceive should avoid traveling to those regions in the meantime. Several thousand cases of suspected microcephaly have been reported in Brazil and other parts of Latin America in recent months. Two of the pregnancies were continuing without any known complications.

Information on the outcomes or stages of these pregnancies has not been released. Babies born with Zika-related birth defects can’t pass it on to anyone else and it’s believed women with Zika can only infect their fetus when pregnant. All of this is still being researched and studied.

The samples were sent to the CDC and results confirming the diagnosis of the virus came back Tuesday, according to Al-Khan. Lawmakers still must reach agreement on funding after both houses approved different amounts: $1.1 billion in the Senate and $622 million in the House.

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