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Research finds Zika virus 'significantly changed' since 1947

Press Trust of India | Apr 16, 2016, 4:44 AM IST

A certain protein, called the pre-membrane precursor or prM, was quite different between the Asian human and the African mosquito subtypes. These changes may, at least partially, explain why the virus has demonstrated the capacity to spread exponentially in the human population in the Americas

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