Zika virus outbreak in 19 English- and Dutch-speaking Caribbean countries and territories, 2015–2016

• Published in: Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
• Main Authors: Lorraine Francis, Shelly-Ann Hunte, Ann Marie Valadere, Karen Polson-Edwards, Virginia Asin-Oostburg, C. James Hospedales
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2018
• Subjects: Communicable diseases; emerging; epidemics; Zika virus; Caribbean region; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Barré
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.26633/RPSP.2018.120; https://doaj.org/article/c5faeee8e606413b9f0e4eeeb0751b9b

Surveillance for Zika virus was enhanced in the English- and Dutch-speaking Caribbean following emergence of the virus in Brazil in May 2015. The first autochthonous case of Zika in the Caribbean was reported by Suriname in November 2015, and the virus subsequently spread rapidly throughout the regi...