| García recently authorized the use of Bti, an organic larvicide, to fight the spread of Zika after rejecting aerial spraying with the insecticide naled as proposed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. |
| Zika, 3, eats a snack near the chickens sold at the Patok market in Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia. |
| The related pathogen dengue, which infects some four hundred million people annually and can cause excruciating skeletal pain and severe bleeding — breakbone fever — is carried by the same mosquitoes as Zika. |
| The most common symptoms of Zika fever are rash, fever, arthralgia, and conjunctivitis. |
| The World Health Organisation warned that Zika had the potential to become an explosive global pandemic if the outbreak was not controlled. |
| The rising number of Zika disease cases in Brazil has corresponded with a spike in microcephaly cases, a birth defect resulting from incomplete brain development. |
