dr. manny alvarez. welcome, how you doing, dr. manny.rent, how freaked out should i be about zika in the place that i live? >> i hate to use the word "freak out" baits doesn't apply proper seriousness to the problem. this virus is a real problem and it affects pregnant women. if i'm a male adult or adult female and i'm healthy and you get bitten by zika, you may not have any symptoms. it will go away in a couple of days. nothing major is going to happen to you. but if you happen to be pregnant than you have the probability of injuring an unborn child. that's the significance of this virus we have seen. children -- i delivered the first baby in this country to have had zika in the continental u.s. when you see the reality of what this virus can do to an unborn child, you have to take the zika epidemic seriously. kennedy: is there anything pregnant women can do if they already contracted it? >> we know zika can be transmitted into the unborn fetus if the baby gets it in the second trimester it can lead to main near long cal deficits. it ca

dr. manny alvarez. manny, even though they're telling us don't be alarmed, parents will be. >> this happens all the time. as of late, you see the outbreaks, sometimes 20, 30, 100 people in different parts of doesn't last forever. a lot of people don't get the full dose of the vaccine. they may get one shot, not the second. so kids in their 20s always need a booster. when i sent my kid to college, i give him a booster shot of the vaccine. the socialization in schools, in their 20s, you use cups and you give drinks to each other and all of that. that promotes more passing of so this is what the health officials are saying. if you think you get it, if you have the mumps, stay at home. because there's no cure in reality. you take liquids, something -- you get a low grade temperature. you can take things like that to monitor the temperature but stay home and let the incubation period disappear because the symptoms stay around 14, 16 days, sometimes you can get it 25 days out of exposure. but don't contaminate

dr. manny alvarez. we're talki acetaminophen. what are we talking about? >> it's a medication i give, a lot of obstetricians give as a painkiller. typically this is the first time there's been a link between taking this medication between 18 weeks and 32 weeks and looking at behaviors in children. what they found, they did a longitudinal study. 7,000 kids followed for a long time. took tylenol -- acetaminophen per se of any brand had behavioral problems like hyperactivity disorders and things like that. here's my problem with the study. i find the science real, but we have to be careful. we don't know how much of this medication the mothers took. so -- i don't foresee -- because there's never been any study looking at the side effects of thised you took an occasional acetaminophen, a regular dose, 350 milligrams every four to six hours, that that's going to do anything to the fetus. i guess if you overexpose now with this study, there is the potential that it -- you could have intrauterine transmission. it could affect brain development and end up with beh

dr. manny alvarez. i guess the big question is i did. >> with all this vegan and healthy and gluten-free. >> in the '90s, women weighed 152 pounds. now 169. men went to 196. that's 15 pounds weight gain in a 20-year span. a couple of reasons. people are getting to live longer. you have older metabolism in the two, inflammation, which is the theme of the health segment today. a lot of the foods that people have been eating in the last 20 years is causing a lot of inflammation because there are a lot of chemicals that we didn't have a long, long time ago. the third factor is poverty. the world is poorer. middle class is gone. so you have now people working two jobs, not enough time to exercise, and, of course, you have to stretch that dolla they're not going to be picking foods when you have two jobs and take care of the kids, that it's very healthy. when you combine the poverty, the elimination of the middle class, all of those things, in conjunction with inflammation because of the chemicals we see in o

dr. manny alvarez specializes in high risk pregnancies.regnant women and women planning to be pregnant should be tested and male partners. the results can be reassuring. or devastating. microencephaly is a rare neurological condition affecting babies, genetics and certain types of infections cause it but this is the first time it is linked to a mosquito borne virus. >> micro is small. cephaly is head. it's where the brain did not develop. the baby has severe cognitive deficiencies. sometimes motor deficiencies. seizures, perhaps. intellectual capacity reduced. can eyes are sometimes compromised so the baby perhaps is going to be blind. they may not be able to suction correctly so that they can eat. >> translator: it's like emotional feelings. i have to be strong at this time. and it's there telling me we have to wait until she's born to really know what is going on with her. >> this expectant mother spoke to the fox news channel minutes before giving birth earlier this year. she allowed our cameras to capture the first few moments of her n

dr. manny alvarez. why wouldn't you get a vaccine to prevent cancer? >> we've talked about this. hpv, human papillomavirus, a virus you get through sexual transmission, linked to cervical cancer, linked to many other diseases of the cervix, warts and infertility and things like and still 40 percent or so of kids have been vaccinated. you have 60 percent. this is a reminder once again as to school begins that you should talk to your pediatrician, consider the hpv vaccine. it's 100 percent effective against the hpv virus 16, 18, those viruses linked to the diseases and you want to take note of it. it is quite effective. it has no side effects. people, when the vaccine came ou saying, well, this may induce promiscuity among teenagers and things like that. that hasn't been the fact. from that social aspect, i don't think you have to worry. have a conversation with your pediatrician. this is for teens and pre-teens, things like that. you should consider getting the hpv vaccine. it does help. steve: you have to get it before you get hpv. >> that's the thing. women in their 30s. 79 mill

dr. manny alvarez treated the mother of that baby. the baby is well. he joins us now from new york. was clear she had severe birth defects. fair so stay this little girl has a rough road ahead of her? >> oh, absolutely. this is a life-long problem. you have a malformation of the brain where you have now severe, severe neurological deficits for life. this child will need intensive care, monitoring and it is going to an incredible challenging life. there is so much fear about zika and precious little information. how much do we know about the virus itself, but, two, this correlation verse causation of birth deeffects? well, every day we begin to find out new things about the virus. i can tell you that the correlation between getting exposed, being pregnant, getting bitten in the first and second trimester of pregnancy has a very strong link of developing neurologic neurologic neurological conditions like microcephaly. kids are born in south and central america where this is now a problem. we are also finding out that there is indirect evidence that in ults did that have a predistogs w