Zika Virus: Medical Countermeasure Development Challenges.

• Published in: PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
• Main Authors: Robert W Malone, Jane Homan, Michael V Callahan, Jill Glasspool-Malone, Lambodhar Damodaran, Adriano De Bernardi Schneider, Rebecca Zimler, James Talton, Ronald R Cobb, Ivan Ruzic, Julie Smith-Gagen, Daniel Janies, James Wilson, Zika Response Working Group
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016
• Subjects: Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Argentina; Barré
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0004530; https://doaj.org/article/ae4d1ca440924cc49aabdd8c594c4fc4

INTRODUCTION:Reports of high rates of primary microcephaly and Guillain-Barré syndrome associated with Zika virus infection in French Polynesia and Brazil have raised concerns that the virus circulating in these regions is a rapidly developing neuropathic, teratogenic, emerging infectious public hea...