Outbreak of Zika virus disease

The Zika virus epidemic A widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time continues to spread in the Americas. On 1 February 2016, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak to be a public health emergency of international concern.

Information on latest developments is available on the European Commission website.

EFSA and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, provide scientific advice to risk managers on the health-related aspects of vector A carrier of a disease-causing agent from an infected individual to a non-infected individual or its food or environment; for example, mosquitoes carrying malaria parasites-borne diseases. They collect data on the distribution of mosquito species A subdivision of the genus, a species is a group of closely related and similar-looking organisms; for example, in the case of Homo sapiens (humans), the second part of the name (sapiens) represents the species that can transmit diseases to animals and humans, such as Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus, which are the vectors of Zika virus. 

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