{"id":1055,"date":"2016-02-26T15:46:23","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T15:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mc.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltmedicine\/?p=1055"},"modified":"2021-08-11T19:41:06","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T19:41:06","slug":"the-zika-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/the-zika-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"The Zika Virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zika is a virus transmitted by the Aedes mosquito, which also transmits dengue and chikungunya. A widespread epidemic of Zika virus infection was reported in 2015 in South and Central America and the Caribbean.<\/p>\n<div id=\"did-you-know-summer-2014\" class=\"accordion-wrapper\">\n<div><a href=\"#collapseOne\">WHERE IS IT?<\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"collapseOne\" class=\"collapse\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mc.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltmedicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/07\/zika-a.jpg\" alt=\"Zika\" \/><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"#collapseTwo\">ONSET AND PREVALENCE<\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"collapseTwo\" class=\"collapse\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-main\/medschool-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/82\/2014\/07\/zika-b.jpg\" alt=\"Zika\" \/><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"#collapseThree\">TRANSMISSION CYCLE<\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"collapseThree\" class=\"collapse\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mc.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltmedicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/07\/zika-c.jpg\" alt=\"Zika\" \/><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"#collapseFour\">SYMPTOMS<\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"collapseFour\" class=\"collapse\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-main\/medschool-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/82\/2014\/07\/zika-d.jpg\" alt=\"Zika\" \/><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"#collapseFive\">PREVENTION<\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"collapseFive\" class=\"collapse\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mc.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltmedicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/07\/zika-e.jpg\" alt=\"Zika\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zika is a virus transmitted by the Aedes mosquito, which also transmits dengue and chikungunya. A widespread epidemic of Zika virus infection was reported in 2015 in South and Central America and the Caribbean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vm-did-you-know","category-winter-2016"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcDnub-h1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3109,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions\/3109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}