The Zika virus is essentially transmitted to people when one is bit by an infected mosquito mostly found in tropical regions. The virus is transmitted by the Aedes aegypti insect. The virus belongs to the same family as Chikungunya, Dengue, Yellow fever and West Nile. However , unlike some of the aforementioned viruses, there is currently no vaccine that can be used to prevent or even treat the infection. Until recently, Zika was largely an obscure virus confined to Asia and Equatorial Africa.
The virus was first uncovered in the year 1947 when a handful of scientists making a study of the Yellow fever in the Zika forest Uganda came across a virus up to this point unknown. The scientists made the discovery of the unknown virus at the time in a feverish rhesus monkey. Fast forward to the year 1958 and it was uncovered that the virus was mainly transmitted or get spread around through the bite of the aggressive Aedes mosquito though it can even be spread
