ZIKV Viral RNA Excretion in Various Body Fluids Viral shedding in body fluids is critical for both disease diagnosis and virus transmission, we then assayed the viral RNA kinetics in various body fluids. Remarkably, ZIKV RNA could be readily detected in urine of all infected animals on day 1 and the levels of viral RNA peaked on days 5 to 7 with 104.51 RNA copies/ml. The mean duration time was 7.5 days. Prolonged viral RNA shedding was observed in two animals on days 14 and 17 and low levels of ZIKV RNA re-appeared in urine after one month in two animals In saliva, viral RNA could be detected on day 3 and afterwards, and peaked at 3– 9 days Prolonged shedding of viral RNA in saliva was also observed in two animals These observations are in agreement with clinical results that ZIKV RNA was detected in urine and saliva Unexpectedly, robust viral RNA shedding was detected in lacrimal fluid in four of the five animals from days 1 to 10 p.i., and peaked at 2–5 days p.i. Especially, viral RNA was detected in two macaques on day 17 Ocular complications have been recently described in ZIKV patients here demonstrated the excretion of ZIKV RNAs in lacrimal fluid in ZIKV-infected animals. Additionally, ZIKV RNA was detected in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) on day 5 Overall, ZIKV RNA shedding was detected in multiple body fluids, and it is notable that viral RNA levels were different among distinct body fluids, in the order of blood N lacrimal fluid ≥ saliva N urine.