How to pronounce “zika” in English

So Zika's really just the latest one.

So Zika virus is carried by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes.

But think about Zika, which had such a dramatic effect on children, the microcephaly.

things like Deni zika and the like and this approach is now being tested in larger parts of the world in places like

They want their anti-Zika mosquitoes to be all over.

like maybe Zika or something?

We've had Zika at least since the 1940s.

And we Zika's probably already here in a larger proportion than we actually know.

Similarly with the emergence of Zika, people are familiar with that.

The upside is you can wipe out Zika or malaria.

It would do the same thing for Zika, which doesn't kill anyone, by the way.

So it's one important reason why Zika is now exploding so dramatically in the Americas.

But I heard you mention Zika briefly during your talk.

diseases like COVID, like Zika, Ebola, influenza.

We use it in disease analysis for things like Ebola and Zika.

Similarly, Zika virus is exploiting urbanization, too.

Today, Zika is being carried by a mosquito called Aedes aegypti.

But of course, here we are with the Zika virus washing over the Americas.

asking me if I could recommend a big data expert to help Brazil with Zika, to which I just-- I almost fell off my chair.

You know, with all the Zika madness around, it's the same thing.

But of course here we are, with the Zika virus washing over the Americas.

That said, we're not going to stop Zika from coming here, whether we go to the Olympics or not.

So whether we go or not, Zika's going to come.

People have called their friends, trying to remember what happened with Zika.

If you've heard of gene drives, you've probably heard about it in relation to Zika virus or malaria, some mosquito-borne virus.

And that's why people are talking about gene drives as a potential way to wipe out Zika or malaria.

So imagine that we're facing a pandemic like the Zika virus.

So you know most infections are pretty indiscriminate, whether it's the absolute hysteria about Zika, which

Let's say you look at it and said, they're this close to solving the Zik-- to finding the formula for the Zika virus.

You know, that really powerful footage about Super Typhoon Haiyan and how that impacted people, how Zika is is impacting women and their families.

There was SARS, flu of various types-- swine flu, avian flu-- and then more recently, Ebola and Zika.

I think, especially doing these kind of real-time outbreaks, the Zika's another example.

I mean, it's really just insanity, the hysteria around Zika.

I actually had someone who works in our office in Geneva, in a global health office, asked me if it was safe to travel to the United States because of Zika.