Open AccessZika Virus: An Emergence of a New Arbovirus
Author(s) -
Sankalp Yadav,
Gautam Rawal,
Mudit Baxi
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of clinical and diagnostic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2249-782X
pISSN - 0973-709X
DOI - 10.7860/jcdr/2016/19170.8133
Subject(s) - zika virus , arbovirus , virology , microcephaly , virus , arbovirus infections , flavivirus , pandemic , yellow fever , biology , covid-19 , medicine , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , pathology , genetics
The world is facing a new pandemic in progress due to a mosquito-borne flavivirus popularly known as Zika virus. The emergence of this new virus is really alarming with the sudden increment in the cases of microcephaly reported from Brazil. The findings attributing the involvement of Zika virus as the reason for congenital deformations in the babies born in afflicted areas have really shocked the world. The present knowledge about this virus is very limited and in the absence of further studies the precautions seems to be the best way of protection from this virus. The present article is a short review about this new virus.