Virus That Shrinks Babies’ Skulls Is Rapidly Spreading Through The Americas

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The virus is spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito. mrfiza/Shutterstock

You probably haven’t heard of the Zika virus, which among other things causes babies to be born with abnormally small brains. Belonging to the Flaviviridae family, it is nowhere near as well-known as many other familial viruses, including those that cause yellow, dengue, and West Nile fevers.