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EU research on Zika

Zika is a mosquito-borne viral disease caused by the Zika virus (ZIKV) that  spread through the South Pacific and through large parts of Latin America in March 2015.

There is scientific consensus that Zika virus is a cause of severe congenital brain malformations in infants born to mothers infected during pregnancy. In addition, evidence indicates that the virus also may cause Guillain-Barré syndrome in adults.

The importance of a rapid research response to the Zika outbreak was highlighted by the WHO declaration on 1 February 2016.

Details of EU projects mobilised in the wake of the 2016 outbreak.

Funding

Funding for health under the research and innovation framework programme, Horizon Europe.

Projects and results

Platform where framework programme funding recipients present their results to search, contact their owners and form partnerships.

Collaboration and jobs

Look for project partners and view profiles of all organisations that have received funding via the funding and tender opportunities portal.

Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Disease Preparedness is a network of major public and private funders of preparedness research.

Scientific publications, tools and databases

Interactive reporting platform, composed of a set of sheets that allows series of views to discover and filter the EC's funding programmes data.

Single point of access to open data produced by the EU institutions. All data free to use for commercial and non-commercial purposes.

You can access all scientific publications from Horizon 2020 via OpenAIRE.