Spain reports first case of baby born with microcephaly after mother contracts Zika virus

The mother contracted the virus from mosquitoes while travelling in Latin America 

Spain has recorded the first European case of a baby born with Zika-related birth defects.
Though dozens of people across the continent are known to have contracted the virus, usually after having traveled in the affected South American countries, but this is the first time a baby has been in born to a mother carrying the virus in Europe.
The woman was diagnosed in May but decided to keep the little boy, said a spokeswoman for regional health authorities in Catalonia where he was born.

There have been 190 known cases of Zika in Spain at the latest count, 189 of which resulted from foreign travel with one being sexually transmitted.
The mother is believed to have contracted Zika and Dengue fever while traveling in South America earlier this year.
Doctors from the Vall d'Hebron hospital in Barcelona said the boy's condition was "stable".
"He is being monitored but he doesn't need any respiratory assistance," Felix Castillo, head of the hospital's neonatal care unit, told journalists.