The pandemic of Zika virus infection is a
formidable threat to the American public health and is the fourth arboviral
pandemic arriving to the western hemisphere in the past three decades after
Dengue, West Nile virus and Chikungunya. This arbovirus was discovered in
Uganda in 1947 in the course of rhesus primate surveillance.
The arbovirus circulated predominantly in wild
primates and rarely caused human infections. This makes its explosive pandemic re-emergence as
truly fascinating,
arriving from Africa to the Western hemisphere. Zika is a threat to our goal of
healthy mother-child entity.
Microcephaly not uses causes lifelong
disability in the child but wreaks an emotional havoc for the mother. Zika is a
predominantly a mild dengue-like disease with some data showing neurological
complications. The data from French Polynesia documented a concomitant epidemic
of 73 cases of Guillain–Barré syndrome in a population of approximately
270,000, which may represent complications of Zika.
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