Spain has recorded its first case of a baby born with the microcephaly birth defect associated to the Zika virus, health authorities have said.
The mother had been diagnosed with the virus in May and had decided to keep the baby, a spokeswoman for the regional health authorities of Catalonia, where the baby was born, told Reuters.
While traces of Zika were found in an aborted foetus in Slovenia that had severe microcephaly, this is the first time a baby has been born with the condition to a mother carrying the virus in Europe.
The mosquito-borne Zika virus has been linked to hundreds of cases of microcephaly.
Spain had 190 known cases of Zika infections at the latest count, 189 of which resulted from travelling overseas and one was sexually transmitted.
The woman, who was 20 weeks into her pregnancy when she was diagnosed, had been infected with the virus and with dengue during a trip to Latin America.
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," said Felix Castillo, head of the Barcelona hospital's neonatal care unit, told journalists.
