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Can Zika infection attack the brains of newborns? Scientists head to field for answers

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said scientists would try to answer that question with its first large such study.
Source: Felipe Dana/AP

Zika infection in the womb can damage a fetal brain. But can the insidious virus also attack the still-developing brains of newborns?

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said Monday that scientists would try to answer that question by carrying out the first large such study to be funded by the agency.

Several hundred infants in

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