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
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