
|Videos|October 4, 2017
How Does Zika Virus Cause Auditory Loss?
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Viviane Boaventura, MD, MsC, PhD, explains how Zika virus causes auditory loss.
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Viviane Boaventura, MD, MsC, PhD, researcher, Fiocruz-Bahia, Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Brazil, explains how Zika virus causes auditory loss. She shares that because Zika is known to cause apoptosis and the death of neuron cells, it may be related to the acoustic nerve.
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