Autor(es): Voelker, Rebecca

Resumo: Investigations spanning the archipelagoes of French Polynesia in late 2013 documented the largest outbreak of Zika virus, public health researchers have reported. Isolated in 1947 from a rhesus monkey in the Zika Forest of Uganda, the mosquito-borne flavivirus causes a mild, self-limiting illness. Health experts had thought Zika virus caused only sporadic human infections in Africa and Asia, but in 2007, the first infections outside of those two continents were reported in patients on Yap Island, Federated States of Micronesia, who were diagnosed incorrectly with dengue virus infection.

Palavras-Chave: Human diseases, Aquatic insects, Public health, Islands, Infection, Dengue virus, Flavivirus

Imprenta: Journal of the American Medical Association, v. 312, n. 4, p. 329, 2014

Descritores: Zika virus - Dengue ; Zika virus - Public health

Data de publicação: 2014

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