Abstract
ZIKA virus (ZIKV) is an arbovirus member of the Flaviviridae family and Flavivirus genus, along with Dengue Virus (DENV), Yellow Fever Virus (YFV), Saint Louis Encephalitis Virus (SLEV), West Nile Virus (WNV) and Japanese Encephalitis Virus (JEV). In humans, it was first isolated in 1952 in Uganda and Tanzania. In 2007, it caused an outbreak in Micronesia, South Pacific, in Gabon, Central…