Zika May Affect Grown-Up Brains Zika is a disease transmitted by mosquitoes and has been a lingering threat in South America and now Florida with so far ten deaths. Zika can be also transmitted from pregnant women to their fetus, sometimes killing stem cells and stunt the number in fetuses. In adults, it has been presumed to cause in extreme cases Guillian-Barre Syndrome, a rare neurological disorder. Mostly it only cause mild sickness-fever, rash, and headaches for a few weeks. However Cell Stem Cell has found on August 18, 2016, Zika kills brain cells in not only fetal mice, but also adult mice. Parts of the forebrain and hippocampus are essential learning and memory even in adults. This means if Zika can affect newborn brain cells, it
