Abstract
1. Mobeen H. Rathore, MD, CPE 1. Editorial Board member University of Florida Center for HIV/AIDS Research, Education and Service (UF CARES) Jacksonville, FL Every few years, a “new” (not really) funny-sounding infectious disease is in the news and causing anxiety: first it was SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome), then avian flu, swine flu, dengue, MERS (Middle East respiratory syndrome), chikungunya, Ebola, and now in 2016 it’s Zika virus. Zika virus was first identified in 1947 at the East African Virus Research Institute (now the Uganda Virus Research Institute) in Entebbe, Uganda, as a cause of febrile illness in rhesus macaques. (1) Until 2007, Zika virus caused only rare cases of human disease in Africa and Southeast Asia. However, in April 2007, an outbreak was reported …
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