This is intense, but also feels more manageable now.
“On February 1, 2016, the World Health Organization declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern over the Zika outbreak in Brazil.” Here are the major facts about the virus that you need to know so far.
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The first sample of the virus was found in a captive Rhesus monkey in Uganda’s Zika Forest in 1947. The following year, in the same forest, scientists found the virus in an Aedes africanus mosquito.
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4 years later, in 1952, the virus was found in humans for the first time. Both in Uganda and the United Republic of Tanzania.
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