ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION

Offers a brief review of our current understanding of Zika virus infection Presents a physician’s hands-on experience for other physicians Highlights the role of the movement of people and mass gatherings in spreading viruses. This book describes the demographic and clinical patterns of Zika infection and evaluates the risk of it spreading to Europe. The book addresses the needs of physicians attending patients with infectious diseases, including infectious-disease specialists, pediatricians, internal medicine specialists, general practitioners, obstetricians, tropical medicine and travel medicine specialists, preventive medicine, and public health specialists, microbiologists, biologists, and vectorial control specialists. It raises clinicians’ and travel health clinics’ awareness of the evolution of Zika virus outbreaks and the affected areas so that they can include this infection in their differential diagnoses for travelers from those areas.