EPISODE · Jul 29, 2016 · 5 MIN
How Viruses Like Zika Can Penetrate the Womb
from The Scope
The placenta seems like the perfect organ to take care of a fetus. Letting in everything good and keeping out everything bad. But the placenta isn’t perfect. OBGYN Dr. Kirtly Parker Jones explores how the womb works and how infections like the Zika virus can sneak past its defenses to affect the growing fetus.
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