Published:
July 25, 2016 at 6:33 p.m. by Barcelona (AFP)
a woman carrying Zika gave birth Monday in Spain the first baby Europe suffering from microcephaly associated with this virus, officials from the Barcelona hospital where the child was born.
another case was detected in Slovenia, but the child’s parents decided to abort.
“the baby is fine from a clinical point of view, his vital signs are normal and stable,” he said at a press conference Felix Castillo, director of service néonatalagie of the hospital Vall d’Hebron in Barcelona (northeast).
the baby has a head circumference below the normal, “he suffers from microcephaly,” he precise.
The baby’s mother contracted Zika virus while traveling in a Latin American country, do we said hospital officials, without revealing the country.
Zika, a virus transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, causes devastating malformations including microcephaly, and a lack of development of the brain.
the child was born by caesarean section at term, has said the doctor. His parents are “very happy” added Elena Carreras, director of obstetrics.
In all, more than 90 million people throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, could have been infected at the end of the epidemic, which began in 2015 on the mainland, say the researchers, whose work is published in the journal Nature Microbiology.
In Europe, Spain is at the forefront for almost 21% of foreigners living there come from this area with which they maintain close ties.
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