More facts from <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;zika&#x2F;symptoms&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;zika&#x2F;symptoms&#x2F;</a><p>* Most people infected with Zika virus won’t even know they have the disease because they won’t have symptoms.<p>* The illness is usually mild with symptoms lasting for several days to a week.<p>* People usually don’t get sick enough to go to the hospital<p>You believe your friends had Zika. bit they may not have. Given the Zika epidemic, I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if lots of sick people assumed they had Zika but in fact had something else. And, even if they had Zika, your anecdote does not trump what the CDC and WHO tell us.