--- title: Where Is the Zika Virus: See the Countries Where It's Spread description: Every country with local Zika infections through mosquitoes, mapped canonical: https://time.com/4202539/zika-virus-where-spread-countries-map/ author: David Johnson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-02T21:08:21.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T19:22:53.000Z article:section: Health og:title: See All the Places Where the Zika Virus Has Spread og:description: Every country with local Zika infections through mosquitoes, mapped og:url: https://time.com/4202539/zika-virus-where-spread-countries-map/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: See All the Places Where the Zika Virus Has Spread twitter:description: Every country with local Zika infections through mosquitoes, mapped twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # See All the Places Where the Zika Virus Has Spread by [David Johnson](https://time.com/author/dave-johnson/) ## David Johnson Updated: Dec 13, 2023 7:22 PM UTCPublished: Feb 2, 2016 9:08 PM UTC by [David Johnson](https://time.com/author/dave-johnson/) ## David Johnson Updated: Dec 13, 2023 7:22 PM UTCPublished: Feb 2, 2016 9:08 PM UTC The epicenter of the[ Zika outbreak](http://time.com/4202262/zika-brazil-doctors-recife-investigation-outbreak/) is in Brazil, but the virus has also [spread to 29 other countries](http://time.com/4202499/who-zika-public-health-emergency/), prompting the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare the cluster of birth defects linked to Zika a global public health emergency this week. That designation will help expedite research on [Zika’s link to babies born with microcephaly](http://time.com/4202993/worried-mothers-fear-for-their-children-at-ground-zero-of-the-zika-outbreak/), or underdeveloped brains, which was first reported in 2014 Zika cases in French Polynesia. Zika is transmitted by mosquitoes, and most of the other countries where the virus is actively spreading are in South and Central America. See the map below for everywhere the Zika virus has spread through mosquitoes based on the [latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention](http://www.cdc.gov/zika/geo/), or click the list to see the names of all the affected countries. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4202539/zika-virus-where-spread-countries-map/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4202539/zika-virus-where-spread-countries-map/"},"headline":"See All the Places Where the Zika Virus Has Spread","datePublished":"2016-02-02T21:08:21.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T19:22:53.000Z","description":"Every country with local Zika infections through mosquitoes, mapped","url":"https://time.com/4202539/zika-virus-where-spread-countries-map/","keywords":["Zika","interactive studio"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"David Johnson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/dave-johnson/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/zika/","name":"Zika"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4202539/zika-virus-where-spread-countries-map/","name":"See All the Places Where the Zika Virus Has Spread"}}]}] ```