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Zika fever (also known as Zika virus disease and simply Zika) is an infectious disease caused by the Zika virus. Most cases have no symptoms, but when present they are usually mild and can resemble dengue fever. Symptoms may include fever, red eyes, joint pain, headache, and a maculopapular rash.
however there are very few case reports in the literature 2 3 diagnosis zika virus can be identified by rt pcr in acutely ill patients and from day 5 post onset of fever by serology detection of specific igm antibodiesutbreaks of zika virus serologic studies have shown that zika infections are occurring from africa to southeast asia in 1978 a small outbreak of acute fever in indonesia due to zika virus infection was described