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Zika Virus Associated with Microcephaly
ZIKV, an emerging mosquito-borne flavivirus, was initially isolated from a rhesus monkey in the Zika forest in Uganda in 1947.1 It is transmitted by various species of aedes mosquitoes. After the first human ZIKV infection, sporadic cases were reported in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.2 ZIKV was responsible for the outbreak in Yap Island of Micronesia in 2007 and for major epidemics in French Polynesia, New Caledonia, the Cook Islands, and Easter Island in 2013 and 2014.3,4 In 2015, there was a dramatic increase in reports of ZIKV infection in the Americas. Brazil is the most affected country, with preliminary estimates of 440,000 to 1.3 million cases of autochthonous ZIKV infection reported through December 2015.5
For Case Report and study Read:
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1600651#t=article
ZIKV, an emerging mosquito-borne flavivirus, was initially isolated from a rhesus monkey in the Zika forest in Uganda in 1947.1 It is transmitted by various species of aedes mosquitoes. After the first human ZIKV infection, sporadic cases were reported in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.2 ZIKV was responsible for the outbreak in Yap Island of Micronesia in 2007 and for major epidemics in French Polynesia, New Caledonia, the Cook Islands, and Easter Island in 2013 and 2014.3,4 In 2015, there was a dramatic increase in reports of ZIKV infection in the Americas. Brazil is the most affected country, with preliminary estimates of 440,000 to 1.3 million cases of autochthonous ZIKV infection reported through December 2015.5
For Case Report and study Read:
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1600651#t=article
