Doing the math on Zika and sex

Tuesday, June 28, 2016 - 16:10 in Health & Medicine

A math professor has developed a scientific model to address the various ways the Zika virus proliferates. The study reveals that mosquito control should remain the most important mitigation method to control the virus. However, the study reveals that Zika is a complicated virus and sexual transmission increases the risk of infection and prolongs the outbreak.

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