NICHD Acting Director discusses Zika in pregnancy in Reddit "Ask Me Anything"

Catherine Sprong oversees NIH's Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), which supports research on fetal, infant and child development; maternal, child and family health; reproductive biology and population issues; and medical rehabilitation.

In this Reddit "Ask Me Anything" (AMA) she talks about the Zika virus and why we need to study its long-term effects on pregnancy and children infected in the womb.