The first case of microcephaly infected by a virus Zika in Spain fetus has been detected in a pregnant woman she would have been infected in a recent trip to Latin America.
medical sources told Efe that the mother has expressed its intention to go ahead with the pregnancy, which is in its 20th week.
Health authorities in Catalonia, the region where the woman resides, said in a statement that the fetus has "various malformations".
In Catalonia there are 39 cases of infection Zika virus, of which 15 are men and 24 women, four of whom are pregnant.
In three cases, the fetuses are developing well. A woman infected for months by Zika virus was mother recently and both she and the baby are in perfect condition and do not present any complications.
Health authorities reiterate the importance of informing the existing risk to pregnant women who plan to travel to endemic areas, mainly Caribbean, South and Central America and Africa.
They advise that, as far as possible, these women should not until the end of pregnancy.