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Alternative Title:
Emerg Infect Dis
Description:
Zika [zēkʹə] Virus

Zika virus is a mosquito-borne positive-sense, single-stranded RNA virus in the family Flaviviridae, genus Flavivirus that causes a mild, acute febrile illness similar to dengue. In 1947, scientists researching yellow fever placed a rhesus macaque in a cage in the Zika Forest (zika meaning “overgrown” in the Luganda language), near the East African Virus Research Institute in Entebbe, Uganda. A fever developed in the monkey, and researchers isolated from its serum a transmissible agent that was first described as Zika virus in 1952. It was subsequently isolated from a human in Nigeria in 1954. From its discovery until 2007, confirmed cases of Zika virus infection from Africa and Southeast Asia were rare. In 2007, however, a major epidemic occurred in Yap Island, Micronesia. More recently, epidemics have occurred in Polynesia, Easter Island, the Cook Islands and New Caledonia.


Subjects:
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Animals Disease Outbreaks Etymologia Humans Macaca Mulatta Primate Diseases Terminology As Topic Zika Virus Zika Virus Infection
Source:
Emerg Infect Dis. 20(6):1090.
Pubmed ID:
24983096
Pubmed Central ID:
PMC4036762
Document Type:
Journal Article
Genre:
Etymologia
Place as Subject:
Micronesia ; Polynesia ; Uganda
Micronesia ; Polynesia ; Uganda Less -
Collection(s):
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Main Document Checksum:
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urn:sha256:41011ae9aacde6c62f600737413bfb052c17a17c90f7ca326d95a82a4424c48b
Download URL:
https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/27269/cdc_27269_DS1.pdf
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