A stealth virus, most often borne on the wings of a ubiquitous predator, is spreading across the Americas. Zika virus is the latest of several that are carried by mosquitoes. But Zika isn’t a new foe. Discovered in Uganda in 1947 in a rhesus monkey, the virus was found in humans a decade later in Nigeria.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/special-report-heres-what-we-know-about-zika
