Zika in the United States of America and a Fateful 1969 Decision

Peter J Hotez

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0004765

Zika in the United States of America and a Fateful 1969 Decision

PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2016 May 26;10(5):e0004765. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004765. eCollection 2016 May.

Author

Peter J Hotez^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America.
² James A Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America.
³ Department of Biology, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, United States of America.

Abstract

The United States Gulf Coast's current risk to Zika transmitted by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes can be traced back to some important federal health policy decisions made during the 1960s.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Aedes* / virology
Animals
Disease Eradication / legislation & jurisprudence
Health Policy
Humans
Mosquito Control* / legislation & jurisprudence
Mosquito Vectors* / virology
United States / epidemiology
Zika Virus / physiology
Zika Virus Infection / epidemiology*

Grants and funding

The author received no specific funding for this work.