Zika virus is fascinating and terrifying to me. Having played Plague a lot, which is a pandemic simulation game based current science, Zika sounds like a plague I would design. If it was a virus I was playing, right about now I would be mutating new ways to transmit the virus to dramatically increase the spread and to stay ahead of the research.
WHO declares Zika virus global health emergency

Zika virus explosion “extraordinary” and constitutes a global public health emergency, World Health Organization says.

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