Zika's origin and international spread

1947 - Scientists getting to know yellow fever in Uganda's Zika wooded area discover the virus in a rhesus monkey

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

1952 - First human cases detected in Uganda and Tanzania

1954 - Virus found in Nigeria

Nineteen Sixties-80s - Zika detected in mosquitoes and monkeys throughout equatorial Africa

1969–83 - Zika observed in equatorial Asia, inclusive of India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Pakistan

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

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

2013–14 - Zika outbreaks in French Polynesia, Easter Island, the prepare dinner Islands and New Caledonia.

Retrospective analysis suggests viable link to start defects and severe neurological headaches in babies in French Polynesia

March 2, 2015 - Brazil reports illness characterized with the aid of skin rash in northeastern states

July 17 - Brazil reports detection of neurological problems in newborns related to history of contamination

Oct. 5 - Cape Verde has instances of illness with skin rash

Oct. 22 - Colombia confirms instances of Zika

Oct. 30 - Brazil reviews growth in microcephaly, abnormally small heads, among newborns

Nov. eleven - Brazil announces public health emergency

November 2015-January 2016 - cases pronounced 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 - international health enterprise (WHO) broadcasts public health emergency of international subject

Feb. 2 - First case of Zika transmission in u.s.; local health officials say likely contracted thru intercourse, not mosquito chunk

Feb. five- U.S. centers for ailment control and Prevention says virus being actively transmitted in 30 countries, primarily inside the Americas

Feb. eight - U.S. President Barack Obama requests $1.8 billion to fight Zika

Feb. 12 - Brazil investigating potential hyperlink among Zika infections and four,314 suspected cases of microcephaly. of those, 462 confirmed as microcephaly and forty one determined to be connected to virus

Feb. 17 - Brazil investigating potential link among Zika and 4,443 suspected cases of microcephaly. of those, 508 showed as microcephaly and maximum of these instances are connected to the virus. WHO seeks $fifty six million to fight Zika.

Feb. 18 - CDC provides Aruba and Bonaire to international locations and territories with energetic outbreaks, bringing general to 32.