Definition of asymptote. : a straight line associated with a curve such that as a point moves along an infinite branch of the curve the distance from the point to the line approaches zero and the slope of the curve at the point approaches the slope of the line.
Zika virus infection is a mild febrile viral illness transmitted by mosquitoes. The mosquitoes that are able to transmit Zika virus are not normally found in New Zealand, therefore Zika should only be considered in people who have recently travelled overseas.n French Polynesia, after the Zika virus outbreak started, an increase in autoimmune and neurological diseases has been observed (73 cases, 42 of them being Guillain-Barre BarrÃ©, syndrome in a population of about 270). 000 there is no proven link at this stage other than this temporal. sequence
Outbreaks 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.The most recent known outbreak has been reported on Yap Island, Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) from April to July 2007. few outbreaks have been reported in tropical Africa and in some areas in Southeast Asia.Agent Zika virus is a mosquito-borne flavivirus closely related to dengue virus. The virus was first isolated in 1947 from a sentinel rhesus monkey stationed on a tree platform in the Zika forest, Uganda [2].