zika taskforce

UWI Regional Task Force on Zika tracks rare neurological disorder

The Caribbean has moved one step closer to uncovering the link between the Zika virus disease and a rare neurological illness.   Once an obscure pathogen, the mosquito-borne Zika virus quickly spread to more than 40 countries in the Americas after an outbreak in northeast Brazil in early 2015. The outbreak could pose an economic burden of $3.5 billion on…