Due to Zika virus, more than 1,600 babies were born in Brazil with microcephaly, or abnormally small heads, from September 2015 through April 2016. The epidemic took health professionals by surprise because...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Health officials Paraíba, a state in Brazil’s Northeast, are reporting a 67 percent increase in dengue fever cases in 2019. According to a Portal T5 report...

The Secretariat of Health Surveillance (SVS) of the Brazil Ministry of Health now puts the total suspected cases of microcephaly at 1,761 identified in 422 municipalities in 14 Brazilian states. In addition,...

The number of microcephaly cases in Brazil has skyrocketed in the past few days as the Brazilian Health Ministry (computer translated) put the tally as of Nov. 28 at 1,248 suspected cases. Cases of the congenital...

In an update on the massive increases of the condition, microcephaly, in northeast Brazil, Brazilian health officials now put the tally at 739 suspected cases of microcephaly, identified in 160 municipalities...

Microcephaly is a medical condition in which the circumference of the head is smaller than normal because the brain has not developed properly or has stopped growing.  In northeast Brazil, they have seen...

In a follow-up to a report on the unusual increases of microcephaly in Pernambuco state, Brazil, several additional states are reporting unexpected increase in the number of newborns with microcephaly,...