Toddlers born with Zika virus seem to be impacted in multiple ways

By Jessica Hamzelou

The Lancet Child & Teenager Health

When Zika infection first struck Brazil 5 years back, the effect was devastating. Cases of infection with the infection started to be detected in grownups in Brazil in early 2015, and then started spreading out throughout the Americas.

However it wasn’t up until the second half of 2016 that paediatricians begun to see a boost in cases of microcephaly, a condition in which babies are born with a little head and in some cases mental retardation, in babies.

That year, researchers validated …