The Zika Virus on a Global Scale
Figure 1. Regions where Zika has a potentially viable environment suitable for transmission. The fight against the Zika virus has been a difficult one. The arboviral disease is easily transmissible, through a viral vector known as Aedes aegypti, in layman’s terms mosquitoes. The virus first began in Micronesia in 2007, following Oceania in 2013, leading…