ZIKV has two families: African and Asian. In 2007, an epidemic was generated by the Asian family of ZIKV on
Yap Island, Micronesia; it then broaden to French Polynesia and other regions of the South Pacific and led to
extensive epidemics in 2013 and 2014; following this ZIKV came in the Americas in 2015, causing an estimated 1.5
million cases in Brazil in 2015[5].