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Mapping global environmental suitability for Zika virus
- Abstract:
- Zika virus was discovered in Uganda in 1947 and is transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, which also act as vectors for dengue and chikungunya viruses throughout much of the tropical world. In 2007, an outbreak in the Federated States of Micronesia sparked public health concern. In 2013, the virus began to spread across other parts of Oceania and in 2015, a large outbreak in Latin America began in Brazil. Possible associations with microcephaly and Guillain-Barré syndrome observed in this outbreak have raised concerns about continued global spread of Zika virus, prompting its declaration as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by the World Health Organization. We conducted species distribution modelling to map environmental suitability for Zika. We show a large portion of tropical and sub-tropical regions globally have suitable environmental conditions with over 2.17 billion people inhabiting these areas.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.7554/eLife.15272
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+ Wellcome Trust
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- Funding agency for:
- Hay, S
- Grant:
- Senior Research Fellowship 095066
+ Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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- Funding agency for:
- Brady, O
- Pigott, D
- Hay, S
- Grant:
- OPP1053338
- OPP1093011
- Senior Research Fellowship 095066
+ International research Consortium on Dengue Risk Assessment Management and Surveillance
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- Funding agency for:
- Messina, J
- Kraemer, M
- Publisher:
- eLife Sciences Publications
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- eLife More from this journal
- Volume:
- 5
- Article number:
- e15272
- Publication date:
- 2016-06-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-04-10
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2050-084X
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English
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pubs:617028
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617028
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- Messina et al
- Copyright date:
- 2016
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- Copyright © 2016 Messina et al. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License permitting unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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