Zika hypothesis: Virus arrived in Brazil during Confederations Cup soccer tournament 2013

Scientists from the University of Oxford (UK) and the Evandro Chagas Institute (Brazil), along with collaborators from a number of other institutions, sequenced seven genomes of the Brazilian Zika virus (ZIKV), including one fatal adult case and one newborn with microcephaly. The analysis shows that Zika virus in the Americas arose from a single introduction, ["]