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A rescreen of 1,000 acute febrile illness samples from Loreto found the virus circulating endemically rather than in a single outbreak, including in a remote riverine community.
A Brazilian laboratory study found both a prototype strain and an emergent reassortant killed neural progenitors and collapsed cortical structure. This is a dish, not a pregnancy.
Two 2026 papers describe the same shift: rural incidence now exceeds urban in some years, the peak has slid to October and November, and one in six hospitalised patients progressed to severe disease.
Guangdong recorded 25,335 local cases in 2025 — 98% of everything China has ever reported. Genomic analysis finds every Chinese outbreak lineage matching a recent import.
A CDC surveillance summary puts 2024 at 359% above the 2010–2023 annual average. The 2.8% that were locally acquired are the part that changes what mosquito control has to plan for.
The agency stops short of calling 2025 a global surge. Its own regional tables show why: the Americas and the Indian Ocean drove the total while the Philippines and Malaysia reported fewer cases than last year.