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Zika virus: Only a few small outbreaks likely to occur in the continental US

  • Written by Natalie Exner Dean, Postdoctoral Associate in Biostatistics, University of Florida
imageMost cases of Zika are asymptomatic.Airman Magazine/U.S. Air Force Photo/Tech. Sgt. Brandon Shapiro/Flickr, CC BY-NC

It is estimated that about 80 percent of Zika infections are asymptomatic or have symptoms so mild that the disease is not detected. This means the number of cases reported by disease surveillance systems in the U.S. and across the...

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