This was the first documented transmission outside of its traditional endemic areas in Africa and Asia, and Zika virus is considered an emerging infectious disease with the potential to spread to new areas where the  Aedes mosquito vector is present.
To je bil prvi dokumentiran prenos zunaj običajnih endemičnih območij v Afriki in Aziji, zato za virus Zika velja, da povzroča nastajajočo nalezljivo bolezen z možnostjo širjenja na nova območja, kjer je prisoten vektor, komar  Aedes .