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- Ottawa, Ontario

Research Centre: Human Health Therapeutics
Until the Zika virus (ZV) outbreak in Brazil caught the global medical and public health communities by surprise in 2015, ZV was considered to be a benign pathogen for healthy humans. That outbreak, associated with a massive increase in babies born with neurological and other developmental defects, with similar increases in Guillain‑Barré syndrome in adults, spiralled into an epidemic affecting other parts of South and Central America, the Caribbean and the USA.