Zika virus is an arbovirus of the genus Flavivirus, which also includes the Japanese encephalitis, yellow fever, West Nile, and dengue viruses. Zika virus is spread by an arthropod, Aedes aegypti, and was first described in a population of rhesus monkeys in Uganda in 1947. Zika virus infection was described in humans in 1968, in Nigeria, when Zikaneutralising antibodies were isolated in a group of people presenting fever, skin rash, arthralgia, and conjunctivitis. The virus has since reached other parts of Africa and Asia. Since 2007, it has rapidly spread across several islands in the Pacific Ocean and various South American countries, including Brazil, French Guiana, and more recently Colombia. Zika virus infection causes a wide range of neurological complications, including longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis