Zika is back in the headlines recently based on a recent report by CDC which found a twentyfold increase in birth defects among pregnant women in the US with laboratory evidence of possible Zika virus infection and a thirtyfold increase in brain abnormalities in this population. In 2016 alone, there were nearly 1300 pregnancies in women with possible Zika virus infection reported to the CDC from 44 states. Puerto Rico bears the greatest burden of Zika infections of all the US