Zika fever is an infectious disease caused by Zika virus (ZIKV), a flavivirus in the Flaviviridae family of +ssRNA viruses, and transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes. ZIKV was first isolated in 1947 in the Zika Forest of Uganda.
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Viral infectious disease
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Human diseases in ICD-11 classification [BR:br08403]
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
Certain arthropod-borne viral fevers
1D48 Zika virus disease
H01553 Zika fever
Genome-based classification of infectious diseases [BR:br08401]
Viral infections
Infections caused by +ssRNA viruses
H01553 Zika fever
Infectious diseases by law in Japan [br08406.html]
H01553