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Tracing Zika’s uncharted spread

A viral family tree shows the pathogen reached Central America surprisingly early.
A worker fumigates a classroom in Nicaragua to combat the spread of Zika

A worker fumigates a classroom to kill mosquitoes in Nicaragua, which was infiltrated by Zika virus in early 2015. Credit: Inti Ocon/AP/REX/Shutterstock

The Zika virus entered Central America in 2014 from Brazil and spread undetected across the region for almost a year.

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Nature 557, 614 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-05274-y

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