For the first time, researchers have shown that the Zika virus can cause Guillain-Barre syndrome, a rare condition in which the immune system attacks nerve cells and causes paralysis. Five Latin ...

The risk for Zika-positive patients developing the syndrome increased as much as 24-fold. “This is the first study providing evidence for Zika virus infection causing Guillain-Barré syndrome ...

A new study from French Polynesia provides the strongest evidence to date of a link between the Zika virus and the rare neurological condition Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), researchers said. In GBS, ...

The increase in Guillain-Barre cases is appearing in conjunction with the spread of the Zika virus to 34 countries and also with increasing cases of microcephaly, a rare condition in which infants ...

The other four developed Guillain Barré syndrome. Tests later showed that all of the study’s participants were infected with Zika and not another arbovirus like dengue.

"The evidence that links Zika virus with Guillain-Barre syndrome is now substantially more compelling," said Peter Barlow, an infectious diseases expert at Edinburgh Napier University who was not part ...

"In the context of the Zika virus outbreak, Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, Suriname and Venezuela have reported an increase of GBS (Guillain-Barre Syndrome)," the WHO said in a weekly report on ...

Health officials are now investigating if the mosquito-borne Zika virus is linked to a rare paralysis syndrome called Guillain-Barre. The syndrome results when the immune system goes haywire and ...

GBS has also been seen in people infected with flu, Epstein Barr virus, Zika virus and cytomegalovirus. Very rarely, cases of GBS have been reported in the days or weeks after certain vaccinations ...

The increase in Guillain-Barre cases is appearing in conjunction with the spread of the Zika virus to 34 countries and also with increasing cases of microcephaly, a rare condition in which infants ...