Zika threatens to become a huge worldwide pandemic

• Published in: Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine
• Main Author: Alcides Troncoso
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2016
• Subjects: Zika virus; Arbovirus; Emergence; Aedes aegypti; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Biology (General); QH301-705.5; Arctic; Barré; Climate change
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apjtb.2016.04.004; https://doaj.org/article/b54221975f5e4b149e6dc479323f75d5

The Aedes aegypti mosquito which transmits Zika virus (as well as dengue, chikungunya and yellow fever) represents a high risk for global transmission. This virus comes from Africa, the Zika forest in Uganda, where it was discovered in 1947 in a rhesus monkey. In May 2015, the first local cases were...