Zika virus belonging to Flaviviridae family and commonly spread by Aedes mosquitoes, and known to be innocent pathogen while restricted to Asian and African population. It is an arthropod borne virus isolated first in Uganda in year 1947. After that many outbreak of zika virus is being reported in different countries. Symptoms of zika are very mild such as fever, rashes, joint pain, conjunctivitis, ulceration. Severe complications of zika virus include risk of microcephaly and other congenital abnormalities in pregnant women. Virus was thought to cause asymptomatic or only mild, self-limiting symptoms. Although vaccines under development, currently no medications is available to treat this virus infection but research is being carried out for making of medication to treat this infection.
