The Zika virus may be linked to a wider variety of "grave outcomes" for developing babies than previously reported - threats that can come at any stage of pregnancy, researchers reported Friday. The findings are preliminary results from the first study tracking pregnant women in Brazil from the time they were infected, and do not prove that Zika is to blame. But they come as separate laboratory research released Friday strengthens the case that Zika causes a serious birth defect called microcephaly - babies born with abnormally small heads - by targeting embryonic brain cells. "It's much more than microcephaly," said Dr. Karin Nielsen of the University of California, Los Angeles, who led the...
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