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SUBMITTER: Hills SL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5853392 | biostudies-other | 2017 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
The Journal of infectious diseases 20171201 suppl_10
Long known to be endemic in Africa and Southeast Asia and a rare cause of acute febrile illness, Zika virus (ZIKAV) arose from obscurity when an Asian genotype ZIKAV caused an outbreak of mild febrile illness in 2007 in Yap State, Federated States of Micronesia. Subsequent viral spread in the Pacific led to a large outbreak in French Polynesia commencing in 2013. After its recognition in the Americas through March 2017, the Pan American Health Organization has received reports of >750000 suspect ...[more]