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Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Author:

Samuel J. Stratton, MD, MPH

Recent world attention has been drawn to a global Zika virus outbreak and an association in Brazil of microcephaly in newborn infants with the outbreak. The outbreak is being managed aggressively by local health authorities and world health organizations. Identification of the potential association of fetal exposure to Zika virus and risk of microcephaly has been a remarkable improvement in global health action when compared to the initial actions relative to the West Africa Ebola outbreak.

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