Zika Virus: An Emergence of a
New Arbovirus
Published: July 1, 2016 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.7860/JCDR/2016/.8133
Sankalp Yadav, Gautam Rawal, Mudit Baxi
1. General Duty Medical Officer-II, Department of Medicine and TB, Chest Clinic Moti Nagar, North Delhi Municipal Corporation New Delhi, India.
2. Attending Consultant-Respiratory Intensive Care, Care, Max Super Specialty Hospital, Saket, New Delhi, India.
3. Postgraduate Student, Department of Orthopedics, Sri Aurobindo Medical College and Postgraduate Institute, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India.
Correspondence Address :
Dr. Sankalp Yadav,
Department of Medicine and TB, Chest Clinic Moti Nagar, North Delhi Municipal Corporation New Delhi-110015, India.
E-mail: drsankalpyadav@gmail.com
Abstract
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.
Keywords
Aedes, Flavivirus, French polynesia, Serum, Yap