The Zika virus is primarily transmitted by Aedes aegypti, the type of mosquito responsible for spreading dengue, yellow fever, and a whole host of
other tropical infectious diseases.
The question of
how tropical infectious diseases could spread as a result of climate change in Europe and other regions of the world has been a research priority of Bayreuth's biogeography team for more than a decade.
His humanitarian experience includes working in Sierra Leone in an Ebola treatment center during the West Africa outbreak, Zika virus in South America, snake envenomation in the Amazon and
tropical infectious diseases globally.
For more than a century, the US military medical community has solved many significant international health problems, particularly in the area
of tropical infectious diseases.
«The world we live in is very interconnected now said Dr. Isaac Bogoch,
a tropical infectious disease specialist at the Toronto General Hospital who contributed to the study.
Such immunity could potentially exist if Zika virus infections in the past were not diagnosed, either because they were asymptomatic or because symptomatic infections were misdiagnosed due to their clinical similarity to other (arboviral)
tropical infectious diseases.