Zika Quotes

How to spell Aedes aegypti,the world's one-stop, viral-disease-transmitting mosquito: T-R-O-U-B-L-E. ~ T.K. Naliaka

Avoid activities outdoor.If you like to take an afternoon nap sleep under bed net. So these are measures that can be done to minimize [the] chance of infection [with Zika virus]. ~ Margaret Chan

I think this spring as the mosquito populations start to increase, we should be especially cautious about locations where we've had locally-transmitted Dengue virus. The same mosquito species that transmits Zika also transmits Dengue. It's confined primarily to Florida, South Florida, along the Gulf states and Southern Texas with a few small populations in Arizona and California. ~ Laura Harrington

Not a lot of attention has been paid to the Asian tiger mosquito, which is another species which we believe can also transmit Zika virus. It has a much broader range. It's found all the way north into coastal areas of Connecticut, Long Island and the New York metro area. ~ Laura Harrington

That the horrible Zika virus or HIV, we can look at what it means to be patient zero, what it means to need not much contact to spread, and all of those things follow into the way ideas spread. ~ Seth Godin

As the public anxieties about infectious disease outbreaks
rose in recent years with the advent of SARS, N1H1 flu, Ebola,
and Zika, we observed in awe how the public would react to an
impending outbreak in their midst and how those public fears
would emerge and spread like, well, an epidemic. A wave of
public angst anticipating an outbreak would swell, crest, and
then subside, very much like the wave of the infection outbreak
itself. In the wake of both waves, relief would follow. ~ Damir Huremović