{"id":227478,"date":"2016-02-27T15:26:32","date_gmt":"2016-02-27T15:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=227478"},"modified":"2016-02-27T15:26:52","modified_gmt":"2016-02-27T15:26:52","slug":"nine-pregnant-women-tested-positive-zika-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/nine-pregnant-women-tested-positive-zika-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine pregnant women tested positive for Zika in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Nine pregnant women have been tested positive for the mosquito-borne Zika virus in the United States, with one of them giving birth to a baby with a rare birth defect, health officials have confirmed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Friday that among the women, one gave birth to a baby with severe microcephaly, a defect associated with undersized heads and developmental problems.<\/p>\n<p>The Zika virus is suspected to cause microcephaly in children born to women with the viral infection.<\/p>\n<p>Of the other women; two had miscarriages, two had abortions and two apparently gave birth to healthy babies. Two others are still pregnant.<\/p>\n<p>All of the women had traveled to a country, where Zika is circulating, according to the agency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did not expect to see these brain abnormalities in this small case series of US pregnant travelers,&#8221; said Denise Jamieson, a birth defects expert.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/02\/27\/452636\/US-Zika-virus-pregnant-women-birth-defect\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine pregnant women have been tested positive for the mosquito-borne Zika virus in the United States, with one of them giving birth to a baby with a rare birth defect, health officials have confirmed. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Friday that among the women, one gave birth to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-227478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}