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Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Zika Virus Genome Sequence Published by the Institut Pasteur

by Entomology Today

Described for the first time in Uganda in 1947, Zika is an arbovirus belonging to the same family as dengue and yellow fever. These viral diseases are spread by mosquitoes in the Aedes genus, like the yellowfever mosquito (Aedes aegypti) and the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus). The first cases were confirmed in Brazil in […] Read more of this post              

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