Zika: Discovery may explain how virus is transmitted from pregnant women to their unborn children

Researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, with colleagues in Brazil, report that the Zika virus is transmitted from mother to fetus by infected cells that, ironically, will later develop into the brain's first and primary form of defense against invasive pathogens. The findings are published in the current online issue ["]

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