24 ZINKA VIRUS
ZINKA VIRUS
1. Zika virus is a member of the virus family flaviviridae and genus Flavivirus
2. It is transmitted by day item active Aides mosquitoes, such as aides aegypti and aides albopictus.
3. its name comes from the zika forest of Uganda, where the virus was first isolated 1947.
4. Thys virus is related o dengue, yellow fever, Japanese encephalitis and west nil viruses.
5. The infection is known as zika fever.
6. The virus is sped eastward across the pacific ocean between 20133 and 2014 to French Polynesia, New Caledonia. the cook Islands and Easter island and in 20145 to Mexico central America the Caribbean and south America where the zika outbreak has reached pandemic levels.
7, As of February 2016 there is evidence that zika fever in pregnant woman is associated with intrauterine growth restriction igloo=ding abnormal brain development in their features through mother -to child transmission,..