Abstract
An outbreak of zika fever hit the Americas in 2015 and became a major epidemy in 2016, prompting the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare a state of international emergency. In Brazil, the Zika virus (ZIKV) has been associated with congenital malformations and serious neurological diseases such as microcephaly and Guillain-Barré syndrome. Considering the risk of another ZIKV epidemy…