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Zika
zika
zika
See also: Zika
English
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Noun
zika (uncountable)
- The disease caused by the Zika virus.
- 2016 January 13, Jessica Glenza, “First case of tropical zika virus linked to serious birth defect found in Texas”, in The Guardian:
- Dr Umair A Shah, executive director of the Harris County department of public health, said, “It’s probably not a case of if we get zika in our native mosquitoes, it’s probably a case of when we get zika in our native mosquitoes.”
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Spanish
Noun
zika m (plural zikas)
- zika
- 2016 March, “El MSP ahora con vía libre para ir tras el Aedes aegypti”, in El Pais (Uruguay):
- El Ministerio de Salud Pública (MSP) llamó a extremar las medidas para combatir al mosquito Aedes aegypti, transmisor de los virus del dengue, el zika y el chikungunya, a partir del regreso masivo de uruguayos que viajaron al exterior.