How to Use microcephaly in a Sentence

microcephaly

noun

• There is no treatment for microcephaly that can return a child's head to a healthy size or shape.
  — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 8 May 2018
• The CDC detects Zika in the brain tissue of babies born with microcephaly.
  — Linda Marsa, Discover Magazine, 22 Dec. 2016
• Before Zika emerged, microcephaly was so rare that most states did not track it.
  — Ana B. Ibarra, Kaiser Health News, 2 May 2017
• Northeast Brazil was the region with the most recorded cases of Zika and microcephaly, a birth defect caused by the virus marked by small head and brain size.
  — Fox News, 24 May 2017
• In microcephaly, the baby’s brain is much smaller than normal.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2019
• In mouse embryos, the S139N mutation caused more severe microcephaly and dead brain cells.
  — Pam Belluck and Donald G. McNeil Jr., New York Times, 28 Sep. 2017
• This is the first study to follow babies born with microcephaly from Zika infections over time.
  — Alexandra Sifferlin, Time, 14 Dec. 2017
• The virus can result in microcephaly, a birth defect in which infants are born with abnormally small heads.
  — Andrew Edwards, Orange County Register, 19 June 2017
• The surge in microcephaly in northeast Brazil in late 2015 was noticed by doctors in hospital neonatal units.
  — Pam Belluck and Donald G. McNeil Jr., New York Times, 28 Sep. 2017
• The study showed that the Cambodian Zika strain that didn’t carry the S139N mutation can also cause microcephaly in mice, though a milder form.
  — Betsy McKay, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2017
• The most obvious and horrifying birth defect is microcephaly — a small head caused because of the damage the virus does to the developing brain.
  — Maggie Fox, NBC News, 23 May 2017
• Conversely, a very small number of the children born without symptoms of microcephaly went on to develop it.
  — Lindsey Bever, Washington Post, 8 July 2019
• Many infections, like rubella and HIV, can cause microcephaly.
  — Washington Post, 7 June 2018
• One of those defects, microcephaly, causes babies to be born with skulls much smaller than expected.
  — Washington Post, 11 May 2017
• However, the link is not absolute: Some women with Zika give birth to babies with microcephaly while others do not.
  — Rose Minutaglio, PEOPLE.com, 3 July 2019
• João Henrique, who has microcephaly, with his grandmother and grandfather in São José da Tapera.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 1 Nov. 2017
• The virus wasn’t considered a major health crisis until 2015, when it was connected with microcephaly.
  — J. Weston Phippen, The Atlantic, 12 May 2017
• Already, one pregnant woman who likely contracted the virus in Brazil in May 2015 later gave birth to a baby in Hawaii suffering from microcephaly.
  — Dina Fine Maron, Scientific American, 26 Jan. 2016
• The virus quickly became known for causing a spate of babies from infected mothers to be born with microcephaly—a condition marked by malformation of the brain.
  — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 6 Sep. 2017
• Zika is linked to a birth defect called microcephaly, a condition that leaves newborns with abnormally small heads.
  — Vidhi Doshi, Washington Post, 30 May 2017
• Her excitement was tempered by fear that the baby might have contracted Zika, which can cause microcephaly and other birth defects.
  — Danielle Jackson, Longreads, 14 Dec. 2017
• San Diego County has had 89 Zika cases, including one of microcephaly, and has joined a Zika screening program.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 24 May 2017
• The researchers estimated a mild outbreak would infect 7,000 people and lead to two cases of microcephaly and four cases of Guillain-Barré.
  — Meredith Cohn, baltimoresun.com, 3 May 2017
• The link between Zika and birth defects was first noticed because the infection can cause microcephaly, or an abnormally small head.
  — Lena H. Sun, The Denver Post, 4 Apr. 2017
• Infection during pregnancy can cause birth defects, including microcephaly in which the baby is born with a small head.
  — Stephen Hudak, OrlandoSentinel.com, 24 May 2018
• Her nightmare has been realized by the four families in El Salvador raising babies with microcephaly.
  — National Geographic, 19 Oct. 2016
• Thousands of confirmed and suspected Brazilian cases of microcephaly were linked with the Zika virus, Brazilian officials said in 2016.
  — Rose Minutaglio, PEOPLE.com, 3 July 2019
• Although the disease is mild in most cases, Zika is suspected in a spate of microcephaly, a rare and disabling condition in which babies are born with abnormally small heads.
  — National Geographic, 1 Feb. 2016
• The most obvious and horrifying birth defect known to be caused by Zika infection is microcephaly.
  — Maggie Fox, NBC News, 8 June 2017
• Indeed, between 7 and 10 percent of children born with microcephaly in the states of Pernambuco and Paraiba, two states particularly hard hit, have died.
  — Washington Post, 6 June 2018

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