{"id":53474,"date":"2016-10-31T05:53:26","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T05:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/vietnam-reports-first-microcephaly-birth-potentially-linked-to-zika\/"},"modified":"2016-10-31T05:53:26","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T05:53:26","slug":"vietnam-reports-first-microcephaly-birth-potentially-linked-to-zika","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/vietnam-reports-first-microcephaly-birth-potentially-linked-to-zika\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam reports first microcephaly birth potentially linked to Zika"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dateline\">HANOI, Vietnam \u2013 \u00a0<\/span>Vietnam has reported its first case of microcephaly likely linked to the mosquito-borne Zika virus.<\/p>\n<p>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>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<section class=\"mod-25\">\n<h2>More on this\u2026<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"article-ct\">\n<article>\n<h3>Mosquitoes \u2014 and diseases like Zika \u2014 flourish when economies tank<\/h3>\n<p>\t    \t<span class=\"type type-article\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\">\n<article>\n<h3>Brazil not expecting another big wave of Zika with onset of summer<\/h3>\n<p>\t    \t<span class=\"type type-article\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\">\n<article>\n<h3>Myanmar confirms first case of Zika virus infection: state TV<\/h3>\n<p>\t    \t<span class=\"type type-article\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<p>If confirmed, Vietnam would be the second country in Southeast Asia after Thailand to have microcephaly case linked to Zika.<\/p>\n<p>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<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HANOI, Vietnam \u2013 \u00a0Vietnam 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 on [&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-53474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53474","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=53474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}