The Zika Virus: A Healthwise special with Karin McCay
It might seem like Zika appeared out of nowhere last year. But the Zika virus was first identified in in 1947 in the Zika Forest of Uganda. It was considered a minor league disease that caused flu like symptoms.
Dr. Ron Warner, an epidemiologist at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, says the strain of mosquito that carries Zika is in the Lubbock area and it has different habits from the mosquito we often warn against. For one, it does not feed at dusk and dawn, the times we are warned to protect ourselves against mosquitoes. Instead, he says, the Aedes Egypti mosquito is a day feeder, which means it could bite any time of the day.
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