Number of cases of infants and fetuses with birth defects potentially related to Zika virus in the U.S. from January 2016 to June 2017
(per 1,000 live births)
Characteristic
Number of cases per 1,000 live births
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22 U.S. jurisdictions included births that occurred in California (selected
counties), Florida (selected southern counties), Georgia (selected
metropolitan Atlanta counties), Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana,
Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York (excluding New York City
residents), North Carolina (selected regions), Oklahoma, Puerto Rico, Rhode
Island, South Carolina, Texas (Public Health Regions 10, 11), the U.S. Virgin
Islands, Utah, Vermont, and Virginia.
* Congenital microcephaly (head circumference <3rd percentile for
gestational age and sex and documentation of microcephaly or a small
head in the medical record), intracranial calcifications, cerebral atrophy,
abnormal cortical gyral patterns (e.g., polymicrogyria, lissencephaly,
pachygyria, schizencephaly, gray matter heterotopia), corpus callosum
abnormalities, cerebellar abnormalities, porencephaly, hydranencephaly,
ventriculomegaly/hydrocephaly (excluding 鈥渕ild鈥 ventriculomegaly
without other brain abnormalities), fetal brain disruption sequence
(collapsed skull, overlapping sutures, prominent occipital bone, scalp
rugae), and other major brain abnormalities.
** 搂 Microphthalmia/anophthalmia, coloboma, cataract, intraocular calcifications,
and chorioretinal anomalies (e.g., atrophy and scarring, gross pigmentary
changes, excluding retinopathy of prematurity); optic nerve atrophy, pallor,
and other optic nerve abnormalities.
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Rate of birth defects in the U.S. potentially related to Zika virus from 2016 to 2017
This statistic presents the prevalence of birth defects among infants and fetuses in the U.S. potentially related to Zika virus infections from ** to ****. In that year, it was estimated that brain abnormalities or microcephaly related to the Zika virus affected *** out of every 1,000 live births.
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