Zika history: A timeline to a public health crisis
by Staff from Outbreak News Today on (#1AVMP)
On Feb. 1, 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, Dr Margaret Chan, based on the advice of Emergency Committee (EC), declared the current Zika virus outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). How did we get to this point-a obscure, formerly believed to be a mild, essentially benign disease-is now a public health crisis? ["]
