Assessing the risk of spread of Zika virus under current and future climate scenarios

• Published in: Biosafety and Health
• Main Authors: Ye Xu, Jingni Zhou, Tong Liu, Peiwen Liu, Yang Wu, Zetian Lai, Jinbao Gu, Xiaoguang Chen
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2022
• Subjects: Zika virus; Aedes aegypti; Aedes albopictus; Species distribution modeling; MaxEnt; Urban cycle; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Barré; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bsheal.2022.03.012; https://doaj.org/article/3dfe20a06aea47d78276476388101854

Zika virus (ZIKV) may cause severe microcephaly in newborn babies and Guillain-Barré syndrome in some adults. In recent decades, its range has expanded in 86 countries. There are two ecologically and evolutionarily district cycles: urban cycle and sylvatic cycle. This work aimed to estimate the urba...