Zika Virus in the Americas — Yet Another Arbovirus Threat

2016/01/13 by Anthony S. Fauci, David M. Morens · 5 citations
Medicine · Social Sciences · #Mosquito-borne diseases and control #Viral Infections and Vectors #Dengue and Mosquito Control Research

paper · pdf · doi:10.1056/nejmp1600297

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Abstract

The explosive pandemic of Zika virus infection in South and Central America is the most recent of four unexpected arrivals of important arthropod-borne viral diseases in the Western Hemisphere over the past 20 years. Is this an important new disease-emergence pattern?

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