• Vol. 45 No. 9
  • 15 September 2016

The 2016 Outbreak of Zika in Singapore

The eponymous Zika virus (ZIKV) originated from Africa, and was discovered incidentally in rhesus macaques in the Zika forest in Uganda in 1947 as a result of Rockefeller
Foundation-sponsored programmes on yellow fever.

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