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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

KITCHEN, S. F.

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1952

#7864

Zika virus (I). Isolations and serological specificity.

DICK, George Williamson Auchinvole (1914 – 1997) KITCHEN, S. F. HADDOW, Alexander John (1912 – 1978)

First description of Zika virus, an arbovirus native to Africa. The authors named the virus after the Zika forest in Uganda, where they were searching for Yellow Fever. Instead they isolated a new virus in samples tak…