Zika
- proper noun
- /ˈziːkə/
- Zika virus
- Zika transmission
- Zika infection
Examples
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I might have Zika virus or something.
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I think it's the same place that says Zika Deka, so does that you that is the same.
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Let's look at Zika.
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"At this point, it looks like it's going to be a very marginal effect because the lake waters are where they should be," said Matt Zika, National Weather Service meteorologist.
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Species and subspecies new to Vermont continued to appear in the railroad habitat long after the trains had been reduced or eliminated (Zika, Stern, and Ahles 1983).
Academic text (1991) -
As Secretary of Health and Human Services during the Obama administration, Sylvia Mathews Burwell oversaw the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and led her department's response to the Ebola and Zika outbreaks.
Academic text (2018) -
There are examples of such studies available in the literature (e.g., Chamberlain & Zika, 1988; Reker & Cousins, 1979; Waisberg & Starr, 1999); however, more remains to be done.
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The Zika forest in Uganda is where the virus was first discovered.
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Researchers traced the origins of the Zika virus back to a forest in Uganda.
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The first case of the Zika virus was recorded in the Zika forest of Uganda.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Zika is the name of a forest near Entebbe in Uganda where scientists first identified the virus now called Zika. The place name later became the name used for both the virus and the disease.
