{"id":53470,"date":"2016-10-31T03:53:53","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T03:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/vietnam-reports-1st-microcephaly-birth-likely-linked-to-zika\/"},"modified":"2016-10-31T03:53:53","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T03:53:53","slug":"vietnam-reports-1st-microcephaly-birth-likely-linked-to-zika","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/vietnam-reports-1st-microcephaly-birth-likely-linked-to-zika\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam reports 1st microcephaly birth likely linked to Zika"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm canvas-atom\">HANOI, Vietnam (AP) \u2014 Vietnam has reported its first case of microcephaly likely linked to the mosquito-borne Zika virus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm canvas-atom\">The 4-month-old girl with an abnormally small head was born in central Vietnam to a mother confirmed to have had the virus when she was pregnant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm canvas-atom\">The Ministry of Health\u2019s General Department of Preventive Medicine said on its website Sunday that the case had a \u201chigh probability of being linked to Zika virus and also the first in Vietnam.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm canvas-atom\">If confirmed, Vietnam would be the second country in Southeast Asia after Thailand to have microcephaly case linked to Zika.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm canvas-atom\">The virus generally causes a mild flu-like illness, but a major outbreak in Brazil last year revealed that it can result in severe birth defects when pregnant women are infected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HANOI, Vietnam (AP) \u2014 Vietnam has reported its first case of microcephaly likely linked to the mosquito-borne Zika virus. The 4-month-old girl with an abnormally small head was born in central Vietnam to a mother confirmed to have had the virus when she was pregnant. The Ministry of Health\u2019s General Department of Preventive Medicine said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}