Zika Virus Outbreak: Indian Perspective

Abstract

Both the authors are Assistant Professor in Govt. Govt College of Nursing, Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala). The whole world is struggling through the by the Covid-19 pandemic. The term emerging and remerging is not new among the health professional, but recently it was observed that the intensity and propensity of epidemics are pushing the socioeconomical and political milieu of the world into an anarchy. Integrated disease surveillance project reported the outbreaks of viral pathogen in the country during recent time including Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever, Kyasunar Forest disease, Nipah, Zika, Acute respiratory infection, Japanse Encephalitis, West Nile disease and variants of Dengue fever (Mourya et al 2019; Cecilia, 2014). The recent attack of ZVI on 9 June 2021, a 24-yearold pregnant lady from Thiruvananthapuram (Kera-