birth defect

The virus has been linked to serious birth defects that include microcephaly, where babies are born with abnormally small heads and underdeveloped brains.

Four people in the Miami area are believed to have caught the virus locally, from mosquito bites.

A routine fetal scan ended with the words no parent ever wants to hear: "There’s a problem." Three months later, writer Rowan Somerville’s daughter was born with esophageal atresia

The doctors were holding off on delivering what they thought was terrible news about our baby. But we already knew - and it wasn't terrible at all.