An Overview of Zika Virus Disease
Zika virus is one of many recently emerging arthropod borne viruses, or arboviruses, capable of causing human disease in North America. First identified in the Zika Forest of Uganda in 1947, Zika virus is a mosquito borne flavivirus belonging to the same viral genus as the West Nile and the dengue viruses.1
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