The Zika virus disease has “explosive” pandemic potential, with outbreaks in Africa, Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, and the Americas, says an article published byThe Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) on Wednesday.
According to a BBC report, the World Health Organization says the virus is likely to spread across nearly all of the Americas.
The current outbreak of the virus, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), came to light when the Pan American Health Organisation issued an alert regarding the first confirmed Zika virus infection in Brazil.
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