ANFS251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Protozoa, Etiology, Lightning

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Zika is not an example of an animal virus. Zika: animals are not involved in its spread, no evidence that the zika virus is spread to people from contact with animals, no pets or other animals have become sick with the virus (including microcephaly) First discovered in a monkey with a milk fever in the zika forest of uganda. Small # 2016 in brazil: there have not been any reports of pets or any types of other animals becoming sick with the virus. *how the zika virus enters the human population. Zika is usually milk with symptoms lasting several days to a week. Many people do not know they have been infected. Once infected you are likely to be protected from future infections. Flaviviridae family (related to the west nile virus!) it"s an example of an arbovirus: enveloped, icosahedral, non- segmented, positive- sense- single-stranded rna genome (10kb in length). It encodes 3 structural and 7 non- structural proteins.

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