Zika Virus in the Americas--Yet Another Arbovirus Threat.

@article{Fauci2016ZikaVI,
  title={Zika Virus in the Americas--Yet Another Arbovirus Threat.},
  author={Anthony S. Fauci and David M. Morens},
  journal={The New England journal of medicine},
  year={2016},
  volume={374 7},
  pages={
          601-4
        }
}
  • A. Fauci, D. Morens
  • Published 17 February 2016
  • Medicine
  • The New England journal of medicine
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? 
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