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When hundreds of middle school students in Manassas started coming down with a mysterious rash and mild fever last month, health officials suspected a disease that half the population has had but many ...

Zika virus is a flavivirus, part of the same family as yellow fever, West Nile, chikungunya and dengue fever. Zika is primarily transmitted through the bite of an infected female Aedes aegypti ...