Zika's origin and global spread

This timeline charts the starting place and spread of the Zika virus from its discovery almost 70 years in the past:

1947 - Scientists learning yellow fever in Uganda's Zika wooded area identify the virus in a rhesus monkey

1948 - Virus recovered from Aedes africanus mosquito in Zika wooded area

1952 - First human instances detected in Uganda and Tanzania

1954 - Virus located in Nigeria

Sixties-Eighties - Zika detected in mosquitoes and monkeys across equatorial Africa

1969–1983 - Zika determined in equatorial Asia, which include India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Pakistan

2007 - Zika spreads from Africa and Asia, first large outbreak on Pacific island of Yap

2012 - Researchers perceive  awesome lineages of the virus, African and Asian

2013–2014 - Zika outbreaks in French Polynesia, Easter Island, the cook dinner Islands and New Caledonia.

Retrospective analysis indicates viable link to birth defects and severe neurological complications in toddlers in French Polynesia

March 2, 2015 - Brazil reports contamination characterized through pores and skin rash in northeastern states

July 17, 2015 - Brazil reviews detection of neurological problems in newborns related to records of infection

Oct 5, 2015 - Cape Verde has instances of infection with pores and skin rash

Oct 22, 2015 - Colombia confirms cases of Zika

Oct 30, 2015 - Brazil reports growth in microcephaly, abnormally small heads, among newborns

Nov 11, 2015 - Brazil announces public fitness emergency

Nov 2015-Jan 2016 - cases suggested in Suriname, Panama, El Salvador, Mexico, Guatemala, Paraguay, Venezuela,

French Guiana, Martinique, Puerto Rico, Guyana, Ecuador, Barbados, Bolivia, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Curacao, Jamaica

Feb 1, 2016 - global fitness employer (WHO) declares public fitness emergency of worldwide situation

Feb 2, 2016 - First case of Zika transmission in usa; nearby fitness officers say probable shriveled thru sex, not mosquito chunk

Feb 5, 2016- U.S. centers for ailment manipulate and Prevention says virus being actively transmitted in 30 international locations, ordinarily within the Americas

Feb 12, 2016 - WHO says suspected link between Zika and neurological problems microcephaly and Guillain-Barre syndrome may be showed in weeks

Feb 12, 2016 - Brazil investigating potential link among Zika infections and 4,314 suspected instances of microcephaly.

of those, 462 confirmed as microcephaly and 41 decided to be linked to virus

Feb 17, 2016 - Brazil investigating capability hyperlink between Zika and 4,443 suspected instances of microcephaly. of those, 508 confirmed as microcephaly and maximum of those cases are related to the virus.

Feb 17, 2016 - WHO seeks $56 million to combat Zika.