Zika Virus in the Americas — Yet Another Arbovirus Threat

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Authors

Anthony S. Fauci · National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

David M. Morens · National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

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?

Topics & Keywords

Mosquito-borne diseases and control Viral Infections and Vectors Dengue and Mosquito Control Research

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: New England Journal of Medicine

Volume 374, Issue 7, pp. 601-604

DOI: 10.1056/nejmp1600297

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