Enfermedad por virus Zika. Revisión: ¿Que debemos saber?, ¿Cómo debemos actuar?, ¿Por qué es una alerta sanitaria?

Illness or fever Zika is a benign febrile disease, zoonotic, vector-borne, acute course, emerging, self-limited and caused by Zika (ZIKAV) virus, was initially reported in Africa and Asia, but now has spread widely much of the American countries. Confirmatory diagnosis of the disease requires specialized testing and treatment is only symptomatic, with prevention of mosquito bites the best strategy to reduce its presentation. Despite being a disease that can take asymptomatic or very mild and very rarely fatal clinical manifestations, he has caught alerts health by progressive and rapid spread also to be associated with neurological, eye and joint congenital malformations in some cases irreversible.