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Title: Zika Virus: Yet Another Emerging Threat to Nepal
Authors: Dhimal, M
Gautam, I
Baral, G
Pandey, B
Karki, K B
Citation: DhimalM., GautamI., BaralG., PandeyB., & KarkiK. B. (2016). Zika Virus: Yet Another Emerging Threat to Nepal. Journal of Nepal Health Research Council. https://doi.org/10.33314/jnhrc.v0i0.686
Issue Date: 2015
Publisher: Nepal Health Research Council
Article Type: Viewpoint
Keywords: NA
Series/Report no.: Sep-Dec, 2015;686
Abstract: Abstract Zika virus (ZIKV) is a flavivirus with single stranded RNA related to yellow fever, dengue, West Nile, and Japanese encephalitis viruses and is transmitted by Aedesmosquitoes primarily by Aedesaegiptiwhich is widely distributed in Nepal. ZIKV was first identified incidentally in Rhesus monkey in Uganda in 1947 and human infection in 1952; and by now outbreaks of ZIKV disease have been recorded in Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific. The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently declared the ZIKV an international public health emergency. The aim of this paper is to briefly summarize origin, signs, symptoms, transmission, diagnosis, preventions and management of ZIKV and possible threat to Nepal in light of endemicity of other arbovirus infections and common mosquito vector species in Nepal.
Description: Viewpoint
URI: http://103.69.126.140:8080/handle/20.500.14356/1725
ISSN: Print ISSN: 1727-5482; Online ISSN: 1999-6217
Appears in Collections:Vol. 13 No 3 Issue 31 Sep-Dec 2015

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