Resources The following articles are recommended:

1. Duffy et al. "Zika virus outbreak on Yap Island, Federated States of Micronesia." N Engl J Med. 2009 Jun 11;360(24):2536-43, available at: www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa0805715 

Spread and impact of a Zika virus outbreak on Yap Islands including laboratory case definitions.

2. Roth et al (2014), Concurrent outbreaks of dengue, chikungunya and Zika virus infections – an unprecedented epidemic wave of mosquito-borne viruses in the Pacific 2012–2014 Eurosurveillance, (19,) 41 2014, available at: www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=20929 

Since January 2012, the Pacific is experiencing a high burden of mosquito-borne disease due to concurrent epidemics of dengue, chikungunya and Zika virus infections. This paper presents an overview of the surveillance and epidemiology of these mosquito-borne disease epidemics in the Pacific Region, to help facilitate response measures that are needed to mitigate the already heavy burden on island health systems and to limit further spread to other parts of the world.

3. Gatherer and Kohl (2015) Zika virus: a previously slow pandemic spreads rapidly through the Americas, Journal of virology, available at: http://jgv.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/jgv/10.1099/jgv.0.000381A

A review of geographic spread and molecular phylogenetic analysis

4. Musso et al (2014). Rapid spread of emerging Zika virus in the Pacific area, Clin Microbiol Infect. 2014 Oct;20(10):O595-6., available at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1469-0691.12707/abstract

A short summary of findings from a large outbreak across French Polynesia in 2013, with an estimated 28000 cases (11% of the population), mainly with mild symptoms, but also a simultaneous estimated 20-fold increase in Guillain-Barré Syndrome cases, without confirmed link.

5. Campos et al, Zika virus outbreak, Bahia, Brazil, Emerg Infect Dis. 2015 Oct; 21(10): 1885–1886. , available at:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4593454/

Laboratory diagnostics, concurrent arbovirus infections

6. Cristiane WC, et al. Outbreak of Exanthematous Illness Associated with Zika, Chikungunya, and Dengue Viruses, Salvador, Brazil. Emerging Infectious Disease journal. 2015;21(12):2274.

Short report illustrating the potential for simultaneous outbreaks of ZIKV, CHIKV, and DENV in the Western Hemisphere and risk of concurrent transmission by Ae. aegypti and Ae. albopictus mosquitoes.

7. Besnard et al (2014), Evidence of perinatal transmission of Zika virus, French Polynesia, December 2013 and February 2014, Eurosurveillance, Volume 19, Issue 13, 03 April 2014, available at: www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=20751 

Two case reports of two neonates potentially infected by perinatal transmission or during birth, including clinical and laboratory features of the mothers and their newborns, who had ZIKV infection as confirmed by ZIKAV RT-PCR performed on serum collected within four days post-delivery in date.

8. Aubrey et al, Seroprevalence of arboviruses among blood donors in French Polynesia 2011-2013, Int J Infect Dis. 2015 Oct 23;41:11-12.available at: www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(15)00239-8/abstract 
9. Oehler et al (2014), Zika virus infection complicated by Guillain-Barré syndrome – case report, French Polynesia, Eurosurveillance, Volume 19, Issue 9, 06 March 2014

Case report from French Polynesia describing ZIKV infection complicated by Guillain-Barré Syndrome.

10. Zamarchi et al 2015, Zika virus infection in a traveller returning to Europe from Brazil, March 2015 , Eurosurveillance, Volume 20, Issue 23, 11 June 2015

Case report from a recent travel imported case of ZIKV infection in Europe.