Zika disease

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English

worldwide Zika virus and Zika disease distribution

Etymology

From Zika Forest, where the virus was discovered at a mosquito research facility of the Uganda Virus Research Institute.

Proper noun

Zika disease

  1. A disease of humans, transmitted by mosquitoes, caused by the Zika virus, with symptoms similar to dengue fever and many other diseases, that also apparently causes microcephaly in the newborns of infected mothers.

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