ZIKA Virus - Pregnancy

• Zika virus can be passed from a pregnant woman to her fetus.
• Infection during pregnancy can cause a birth defect called microcephaly and other severe fetal brain defects.
• Zika primarily spreads through infected mosquitoes. You can also get Zika through sex without a condom with someone infected by Zika, even if that person does not show symptoms of Zika.
• There is no vaccine to prevent or medicine to treat Zika.

• How likely it is that Zika infection will affect your pregnancy.
• If your baby will have birth defects if you are infected while pregnant.
• The full range of health effects that Zika virus infection during pregnancy might lead to.

Learn more on CDC’s Zika and Pregnancy site at ww.cdc.gov/zika/pregnancy.

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID), Division of Vector-Borne Diseases (DVBD),  Page last reviewed May 9, 2019