A mild pathogen turned ugly: Zika virus and the case with microcephaly

Zika virus (ZIKV) is a mosquito-bourne, dengue-like flavivirus (arbovirus), which has been causing transient outbreaks of mild, self-limited illness for about 70 years. Its recent notoriety has arisen from its association with Guillain-Barré syndrome in the general population and outbreak of babies with microcephaly in Brazil, particularly in the northeast region after September 2015 [1], [2].

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