{"id":2591,"date":"2016-04-14T09:56:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T13:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2591"},"modified":"2016-04-14T09:56:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T13:56:00","slug":"zika-virus-is-responsible-for-microcephaly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2591","title":{"rendered":"Zika Virus is Responsible for Microcephaly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #444444; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 11.5pt;\">In the New England Journal of Medicine, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) now admit there is a \u201ccausal relationship\u201d between the Zika virus and a severe form of microcephaly and intracranial calcifications.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444444; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 11.5pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #444444; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 11.5pt;\">Dr. Tom Frieden, chief of the CDC, states this study marks a turning point in the current Zika outbreak but there\u2019s still a lot that we don\u2019t know; however, there is no longer any doubt that Zika causes microcephaly. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2016\/04\/13\/474112727\/cdc-confirms-zika-is-the-cause-of-severe-brain-defects-at-birth?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=28438179&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8aHZ33Ugx-jDsxsvBjK2dOP56WXpkZoN3sz5jV9m4W2I0nlNW70zwJaOUKt3i7z5wGinkqU5Dj5DDW1vFD-FL0QrAyaw&amp;_hsmi=28438179\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here\u2026..<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the New England Journal of Medicine, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) now admit there is a \u201ccausal relationship\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2592,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions\/2592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}