Pregnancy in the Time of Zika Addressing Barriers for Developing Vaccines and Other Measures for Pregnant Women

• Autores: Saad B. Omer, Richard H. Beigi
• Localización: JAMA: the journal of the American Medical Association, ISSN 0098-7484, Vol. 315, Nº. 12, 2016, págs. 1227-1228
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Three recent infectious disease outbreaks of global importance—H1N1 influenza, Ebola, and now Zika—have had specific implications for pregnant women. For the H1N1 pandemic, pregnant women and their infants were high-risk groups for severe complications and death. During the Ebola outbreak, there were concerns about worse outcomes among pregnant women and specific concerns regarding vertical transmission of infection to newborns. The current Zika outbreak, with its ostensible association with microcephaly, has direct and highly concerning implications for pregnant women and women of reproductive age.