Wikidata:WikiProject Medicine/Zika

This page helps to collect information about Zika virus (Q202864), Zika fever (Q8071861), 2015–16 Zika virus epidemic (Q21686043) and Zika virus outbreak timeline (Q22921543).

Overview pages

• Zika at WHO
• Zika at CIDRAP
• Zika at CDC.gov
  • Emerging Infectious Diseases
  • World Map of Areas with Risk of Zika
• Zika at NIAID
• Zika at NLM
• Zika at PAHO
  • Data vizualization
• Zika at Virus Pathogen Resource
• Zika at Wikipedia
• Zika at ScienceOpen
• Zika at the European Commission
• Pinterest: Zika
• Zika at Elsevier
• Zika at OUP
• Zika at MicrobeWiki

News feeds

Daily

• Zika News
• Tweeted Times:
  • Based on Twitter list for Zika
  • Based on Twitter search for Zika
  • Based on search for public health emergency-related topics
• CDC Zika Timeline
• PubMed
  • with specific dates
• Disasterlit
• Zika at HSLS preprint search engine
• Zika virus news

Weekly or so

• Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• This Week in Virology
• ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report

Zika Working Groups

• Zika Response Working Group — via Infectious Outbreak Response Group (iORG)
• GloPID-R
  • etiology, vaccines, diagnostics, vector control and data sharing
• ICGEB Zika virus Working Group
• Zika Guillain-Barré syndrome Working Group

Zika discussion forums

• Zika Research mailing list
• Zika tag at virological.org

Zika Q & A

• CDC
• Biology StackExchange
• Health StackExchange
• Travel StackExchange
• Open Science Q & A

Zika research

Zika virus detection (Q23055040)

• reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (Q169526) of samples
  • blood of freshly infected humans
  • saliva glands of infected mosquitoes
• plaque reduction neutralization test (Q7201694)
• MAC-ELISA (Q23055063)
• nanopore sequencing (Q8973627)

Zika spread

Zika phylogenetic analysis map

• Africa ==> Asia & Pacific ==> South America ==> North America

Zika control

• Via mosquitoes
• Mosquito (vector) control emergency response and preparedness for Zika virus
  • producing GMO male mosquitoes whose offspring cannot survive in the wild
  • infecting mosquitoes with Wolbachia
• Antivirals

Zika vaccine

• Build on Dengue/ Ebola vaccine efforts?

Zika-related data sets

• Virus Pathogen Resource
• CDC/epi
  • dashboard
• NCBI
• ZIKV Collaborative Database
• Map of Zika in the US
• 33 Zika virus genomes sequenced from patient and pooled mosquito samples
• restricted access: Registry for women exposed to Zika virus during pregnancy

Dashboards

• Zika CDC Dashboard
• NextStrain Zika Dashboard
• Microreact

Ongoing research

• Infection of three rhesus macaques with French Polynesian Zika virus
  • part of Zika Open-Research Portal
  • originally located at https://dholk.primate.wisc.edu/project/dho/public/Zika/public/ZIKV-001-public/begin.view .
• National Primate Research Centers (Q6975046) on Zika
  • University of California, Davis, California National Primate Research Center (Q5020708): Zika pages
  • Oregon National Primate Research Center (Q7101277): Zika pages
• Southern Research (Q7570400): zika pages
• Phylogenetic analyses of Zika virus sequences
• Zika virus sequencing of plasma samples
• mobile Zika virus sequencing in Brazil
• OpenZika:
  • Overview
  • Grid computing initiative
• 3 hits for Zika in NIH RePORT as of April 17, 126 as of June 18
  • 122 for flavivirus
• Zika at clinicaltrials.gov
• Zika tracking
  • based on Twitter searches
  • similar project proposed to use Wikimedia traffic data
• Countries with reported local Zika infections
• Model based scenarios of the spatio-temporal spreading and impact of Zika virus in the Americas
• Caribbean Primate Research Center (Q26811663)
  • Secondary Zika virus infec2on do not support evidences of An2body-Dependent Enhancement in vivo in dengue pre-exposed rhesus macaques

Grants

• Notice of NIAID's Interest to Highlight High-Priority Zika virus (ZIKV) Research Areas http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-AI-16-026.html
• Zika papers acknowledging NIAID funding
• List of Zika-related projects co-funded by the MRC, the Newton Fund and the Wellcome Trust (as of March 21, 2016)
• List of Zika-related projects funded by the Brazilian Ministry of Health
• Seventeen new research proposals aimed at identifying solutions to address the Zika virus

Challenges

• Zika Virus Challenge
• USAID's Combating Zika and Future Threats Grand Challenge
• several entries to the Open Science Prize

Visualizations

• Understanding Zika
• History of Zika Virus
  • Timeline
• Real-time visualization of Zika virus evolution
• Zika on Google Trends
  • Google also announced that they would help with visualizing Zika data
• Zika on Healthmap
• Wikipedia Trends
• Wikipedia page views:
  • Spanish
    • Virus del Zika
    • Categoría:Flaviviridae
  • English
    • Zika virus and some related articles
    • Category:Flaviviruses

Declarations on data and resource sharing

• Bermuda Principles (Q4892647)
  • genomic data
• Nagoya Protocol (Q1963613)
  • biodiversity specimens
• Bouchout Declaration (Q23325284)
  • biodiversity research data

Apps

• Mosquito Alert
• Kidenga
• WHO Zika App
  • reviewed in ZIKA App - A great resource from the World Health Organization (WHO) (Q27044904)
• TAMU Zika

Further reading

• Vírus Zika no Brasil
• WHO statement on the 2nd meeting of IHR Emergency Committee on Zika virus and observed increase in neurological disorders and neonatal malformations
• Team of Rival Scientists Comes Together to Fight Zika
• Legal aspects of Zika response
• "Zika and Ebola get all the headlines, but pathogens that threaten livestock and crops could be even more dangerous for humans."

Events

Order in reverse chronological order

• Zika Summit 2016 (25-26 April 2016, Paris)
• Zika-themed Force2016 hackathon (April 17, 2016, Portland, Oregon)
• ZikaHack at Johns Hopkins (April 7, Baltimore, MD)
• #ZikaHack (April 2-3, Boston, MA)
• Zika Action Plan Summit (April 1, Atlanta, GA)
• Research Priorities to Inform Public Health and Medical Practice for Domestic Zika Virus: A Workshop (16 February, 2016, Washington, D.C.)
  • Workshop report
    • on-site (with video embeds)
    • formally published
      • "Several participants noted that it is critical to study ZIKV in humans in the countries most affected and highlighted the importance of establishing a coordinated and well-resourced research approach to ZIKV, which would include the efficient sharing of biospecimens across international borders, availability of rapid funding announcements, better communication among scientists about the types of research being conducted, and the availability of datasets."

On Wikidata

Lists

• Wikidata:WikiProject Source MetaData/Wikidata lists/Items about Zika virus or fever (mostly research articles)
  • the corresponding timeline

Tools

• A script for generating TSV files that allow to generate Wikidata statements about Zika-related drugs via QuickStatements
• Demo of using Contentmine to mine scholarly articles for information related to Zika.
  • data dump on Zenodo
  • visualization
• globalbioticinteractions.org
• Find Link
• Conceptmap

Queries

• In what ways could Wikidata be queried to provide insights into any aspect of the virus, the disease, the current or past outbreaks, or related items or classes of items?

Weblinks

Very incomplete

• IMED 2016 hackathon
• ZIKV infection in dengue-exposed macaques at Caribbean Primate Research Center
• Research uncovering reasons for Zika virus emergence

See also

• Mailing list thread about tracking Zika spreading via geolocated page view stats
• Wikidata:WikiProject Wikidata for research/Zika research
• m:Research:Quantifying the global attention to public health threats through Wikipedia pageview data
• Wikiversity course on how to teach instructors how to teach students about hoaxes related to the Zika virus outbreak