Zika - Méditerranée Infection
Globalization of emerging infections:
what next after Chikungunya ?
Episode 2: Zika virus goes international
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UMR_D 190 – Emergence des Pathologies Virales
Aix-Marseille Univ - IRD - EHESP – IHU Méditerranée Infection
Marseille, FRANCE
Rémi CHARREL --- remi.charrel@univ-amu.fr
Background
•1947 – First viral isolation from blood of Rhesus monkey. Zika forest,
Uganda;
•1952 – First human cases Nigeria;
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insects
no known vector
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Culex
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