TY - JOUR AU - Cardenas, Victor AU - Paternina-Caicedo, Angel Jose AU - Salvatierra, Ernesto Benito T1 - Underreporting of Fatal Congenital Zika Syndrome, Mexico, 2016–2017 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2019 VL - 25 IS - 8 SP - 1560 SN - 1080-6059 AB - To determine completeness of fatal congenital Zika syndrome reporting in Mexico, we examined data from the Mexican National Institute of Statistics and Geography. We found that an estimated 50% more infants died from microcephaly attributable to congenital Zika syndrome during 2016–2017 than were reported by the existing surveillance system. KW - Zika virus KW - Zika virus infection KW - microcephaly KW - public health surveillance KW - infant mortality KW - congenital Zika syndrome KW - viruses KW - Mexico DO - 10.3201/eid2508.190106 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/25/8/19-0106_article ER - End of Reference