History
This animal was first discovered to have the virus in it
What is a sentinel monkey?
Zika virus infection during pregnancy has been linked to this serious birth defect.
What is Microcephaly?
Zika virus belongs to this group in Baltimore classification.
What is Group IV (+ssRNA)?
The World Health Organization declared Zika a Public Health Emergency of International Concern in this year.
What is 2016?
In response to Zika, Brazil’s government encouraged women to do this.
What is delay pregnancy?
The first major Zika outbreak outside of Africa and Asia occurred on this island in 2007.
What is a Yap Island?
This neurological disorder is characterized by Muscle weakness and paralysis.
What is Guillian-Barre Syndrome?
This family of viruses includes Zika and dengue.
What is the Flavivirus family?
This U.S. agency created a pregnancy registry to track Zika virus infections.
What is the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)?
The lack of access to abortion in Brazil during the Zika crisis sparked global debate over what rights.
What are reproductive rights?
This South American country became the center of a major Zika outbreak in 2015.
What is Brazil?
Symptoms of Zika are usually mild and include red eyes, rash, joint pain, and this other symptom.
What is Fever?
Zika’s genome can be immediately translated by host ribosomes because it is this type of RNA.
What is positive-sense single-stranded RNA?
This type of vaccine uses a deactivated virus and is safer for vulnerable populations but less effective overall.
What is an inactivated virus vaccine?
This environmental issue has helped expand mosquito habitats, helping Zika's spread.
What is climate change?
Over 30,000 Zika virus cases were reported during this 2013–2014 outbreak, which was the first linked to neurological conditions.
What is the French Polynesia outbreak?
In tropical regions today, Zika virus infections tend to follow this pattern.
What is a seasonal pattern?
Zika’s ability to infect fetuses and brain development is linked to mutations in this viral lineage.
What is the Asian lineage?
This U.S. agency issued travel advisories during the Zika outbreak to help reduce exposure, especially for pregnant women.
What is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)?
Despite urging women not to get pregnant during the outbreak, governments failed to provide access to this reproductive services.
What is abortion?
Phylogenetic studies reveal Zika has two main lineages originating from these two continents.
What are Africa and Asia?
Recent research is investigating these long-term health effects in children exposed to Zika in the womb.
What are developmental issues?
This complication in vaccine development occurs when antibodies from one flavivirus worsen infections by another.
What is antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE)?
This DNA-based vaccine approach involves plasmids expressing Zika envelope proteins to stimulate the immune system.
What is a DNA plasmid vaccine?
Zika exposed inequalities in global health, especially in these types of communities where testing and mosquito control is limited?
What are low-income communities?