Zika Data Guide

This repository contains data — and pointers to data — related to the 2015–16 Zika virus outbreak. Please feel free to suggest additions and/or modifications.

• Global Data
  • Zika Virus
  • Mosquitoes
• Country-Specific Data
  • Brazil
  • Colombia
  • United States

This repository also contains archived PDFs and data extracted from the resources below. For a full list of files, see files.md.

Global Data

Zika Virus

• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is maintaining a list of "Countries and territories with active Zika virus transmission."

• The Pan American Health Organization is maintaining a similiar list.

• The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control is tracking countries and territories with local Zika transmission and classifying them into several categories.

• The World Health Organization is not yet publishing structured data, but publishes a page of Zika outbreak news.

• HealthMap.org is mapping news and social-media alerts about Zika.

• Wikipedia's page on the outbreak includes a referenced table of confirmed case counts since April 2015, by country.

Mosquitoes

Per the WHO, "Zika virus is transmitted to people through the bite of an infected mosquito from the Aedes genus, mainly Aedes aegypti in tropical regions. This is the same mosquito that transmits dengue, chikungunya and yellow fever."

• The global compendium of Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus occurrence. Data, as CSV files, available here. Published 2015-07-07 in Nature Scientific Data.
  • "A global geographic database of known occurrences of Ae. aegypti and Ae. albopictus between 1960 and 2014 [...] derived from peer-reviewed literature and unpublished studies including national entomological surveys and expert networks. [...] This is the first comprehensive global database of Ae. aegypti and Ae. albopictus occurrence, consisting of 19,930 and 22,137 geo-positioned occurrence records respectively."

Country-Specific Data

Brazil

• Brazil's health ministry is publishing reports on Zika and microcephaly. The latest report covers through 2016-01-30.

Colombia

• Colombia's national institute of health is publishing Zika-related reports, including regional counts of suspected Zika samples sent to the agency for testing, and case counts by municipality.
  • The latest regional data covers 2015-09-01 through 2016-02-02.
  • The latest municipal data through the 4th epidemiological week of 2016, which ended 2016-01-30. Note: The national totals in this data seem to be a few cases higher than the sum of the municipal cases.

United States

The CDC is keeping a list of "laboratory-confirmed Zika virus disease cases reported to ArboNET by [U.S.] state or territory".

Not many individual U.S. states are currently publishing structured data on Zika. But some do maintain Zika information pages, which might contain relevant data in the future. A partial list:

• California

  • Information page
  • "Travel-Associated Cases of Zika Virus in California", updated every Friday.

• Florida

  • Information page

• Virginia

  • Information page

• Texas

  • Information page
  • News updates

In the meantime, Scientific American is collecting unstructured data (e.g., news releases) from state health departments, and mapping the known U.S. cases.

Acknowledgements

Special thanks to Torsten Wurm, @benparkergit, @pushthings4ward, and Matt Osborn.

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