Zika virus What the neurologist wants to know

Just as Neurology® Without Borders launched in late January, news coverage about the Zika virus epidemic in Latin America with Brazil at ground zero began to reach the popular press.^1–4 Photographs of devastated parents and microcephalic, dysmorphic infants have captured the public's attention. Recent articles in the New England Journal of Medicine⁵ and Lancet^6–8 among others have outlined some of what is known about the epidemiology of this arbovirus and how we believe it made its way from Africa (identified in 1947) to Southeast Asia (mid-20th century) to Micronesia (2007) to French Polynesia (2014) and most recently to Latin America in 2015.<sup>9




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