First locally transmitted Zika virus cases identified in the United States

CV Ventura, TA Albini, AM Berrocal - JAMA ophthalmology, 2016 - jamanetwork.com
As the world becomes smaller with globalization, exposure to diseases from distant lands
has increased. This is certainly evident with Zika virus (ZIKV), a flavivirus that was originally
isolated inRhesusmonkeys from Uganda. ZIKV subsequently infected humans and migrated
from Africa and Asia to the Americas. The actual and most devastating ZIKV outbreak
reported in history started in May 2015 in the northeast of Brazil, when approximately 0.4 to
1.3 million people were infected with ZIKV that year …