From mother to child, passing on disease

Friday, January 29, 2016 - 11:32 in Health & Medicine

While world health leaders race to contain the spread of the mosquito-borne Zika virus in the Americas, researchers at the University of Iowa are reminding doctors in the United States to be on the lookout for two other vector-borne and potentially life-threatening diseases that can be passed from mother to child through the placenta. Chagas’ […]

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