A new study finds that Zika virus, which is already linked to paralysis and birth defects, also may be associated with a deadly type of brain inflammation.
Researchers found the Zika virus in the spinal fluid of an 81-year-old man with meningoencephalitis, a dangerous inflammation of the membranes that surround the brain, according to a report from French researchers in The New England Journal of Medicine.
The man had been on a cruise in the South Pacific near New Zealand, New Caledonia, Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands.
Although Zika is now spreading in the Americas, it caused an outbreak in French Polynesia from 2013 to 2014 and is spreading on several island groups in the Pacific, including New Caledonia and American Samoa, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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