If a pregnant woman contracts Zika, how likely is her fetus to develop an abnormally small head?
Scientists don’t yet know, but they might be getting closer to an answer.
On Wednesday, researchers put the risk at between 1 percent and 13 percent when the infection occurs in the first trimester of pregnancy. A previous study, based on data from a Zika epidemic in French Polynesia in 2013 and 2014, concluded that 1 percent of infected pregnant women carried a fetus that developed an abnormally small head, a condition known as microcephaly.
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