Zika
[ zee-kuh ]
/ ˈzi kə /
noun
Also called Zika fever, Zika disease, Zika virus disease.
an illness caused by a chiefly mosquito-borne virus of the genus Flavivirus, typically characterized by mild fever, rash, and joint pain.
the virus that causes this illness; Zika virus.
Origin of Zika
First recorded in 1950–55,
Zika is from the Luganda word
zika “overgrown”; the virus was first identified in a rhesus monkey in the Zika Forest in Uganda