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Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO)

The Zika virus is a flavivirus transmitted by a mosquito that belongs to the Aedes genus. It was first isolated in 1947 in Rhesus macaques of the Zika Forest (Uganda); human infection was initially shown through serology studies in Uganda and Tanzania in 1952 and the virus was successfully isolated from human samples in Nigeria in 1968 (1).

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