What is it about?
In the past two decades West Nile Virus and Zika virus have emerged as important human pathogens. How does infection with one or the other virus differ
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Why is it important?
Both Zika and WNV can cause severe neurological disease but to date only Zika has proven to cross the placenta and infect developing human fetuses. When primary Zika virus infection occurs during maternal first trimester of infection there is a high risk of transmission to the fetus and direct infection of the nervous system with subsequent development of microencephaly
Perspectives
Two new arboviral epidemics in twenty years, what is store for us in the next 20 years.
Dr Clayton Alexander Wiley
University of Pittsburgh
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This page is a summary of: Human Zika and West Nile virus neurological infections: What is the difference?, Neuropathology, May 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/neup.12385.
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