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🦟 A mosquito virus 🤒 A mild illness 🌳 A forest in Uganda
Zika

Zika

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A virus spread by mosquitoes that can cause fever, rash, and birth defects
  • noun
  • /ˈziːkə/
  • Specialized
: Zika
  • Health officials are concerned about how Zika, a virus transmitted by mosquitoes, can lead to severe birth defects.

This is a mosquito killer billboard that is targeting mosquitoes carrying the Zika virus in Brazil.

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Examples

  • But now the CDC feels comfortable coming out and saying Zika causes microcephaly.

  • Second, the changing climate conditions expand the ranges of some of these mosquitoes that carry Zika and other diseases.

    WIRED

  • And yet we see that Zika is spreading rapidly.

  • And then the mosquito changed and Zika changed.

  • In the meantime, I love volunteer to be infected with the Zika virus for a vaccine trial.

  • It means that in the first wave of Zika virus, there was this huge exposures.

  • Severe disease is quite uncommon and there haven't been any reported deaths due to Zika in adult populations.

  • And so, you know, we ignored the warning shots of SARS and MERS and Zika and a whole bunch of other things.

    Chris Williamson

  • And in addition to Ebola and Zika and bird flu and swine flu, we have coronaviruses like SARS and MERS.

  • Studies have shown that the Zika virus is primarily spread through mosquito bites and can cause rash and fever.

Surface Forms

Zika singular
Zikas plural

Etymology

Zika for the virus comes from the Zika Forest in Uganda, where scientists first found the virus in mosquitoes. So the virus is called Zika because it was named after the place where it was discovered.