Zika virus: What it is, symptoms, causes and treatment

zika virus

In recent weeks the news about a virus known popularly with the name of Zika virus has begun to appear in the majority of media around the world, causing alarm and alert in the town to become an emerging virus at the high number of cases for some time they have been recorded in different countries, even to cause the emergency committee of the wHO (World Health Organization) should meet urgency to treat all information collected so far.

zika virus

It is true that we are facing an unknown virus so far for the majority of the population, but on which there originally recorded for decades. In fact the virus was first identified in 1947 in Uganda, specifically in the forests of Zika, discovered in a Rhesus Monkey when it carried out a study on the transmission of yellow fever in the jungle.

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