It is hard to find anything positive to say about an epidemic of an emerging virus that infects pregnant women, targets developing fetuses' neural progenitor cells, and disrupts the sequence of neural development to cause a devastating syndrome resulting in lifelong disabilities. Infants with microcephaly became the faces of the Zika virus epidemic in the Americas, which affected almost all countries in the western hemisphere in 2014–17. By the end of 2017, Zika virus has nearly disappeared from the Americas as quickly as it emerged. Now that the dust is settling, what have the scientific and public health communities learned? Is there a silver lining to Zika's devastation?

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美洲寨卡病毒流行是否有一线希望？

对于感染孕妇，针对发育中的胎儿神经祖细胞并破坏神经发育顺序而导致毁灭性综合症，导致终身残疾的新兴病毒流行，很难找到肯定的说法。患有小头畸形的婴儿成为美洲寨卡病毒流行的代名词，在2014-17年度，该病毒几乎影响了西半球的所有国家。到2017年底，寨卡病毒从出现以来就已从美洲几乎消失了。现在尘埃落定，科学和公共卫生界学到了什么？寨卡（Zika）的毁灭是否一线希望？