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2015–16 Zika virus epidemic, a Common card
An epidemic of Zika fever, caused by Zika virus, began in Brazil and affected other countries in the Americas from April 2015 to November 2016.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 91
- DEF
- 95
- Power
- 186
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 13,000
Power 186 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 95 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The World Health Organization declared the end of the epidemic in November 2016, but noted that the virus still represents "a highly significant and long term problem".
- It is estimated that 1.5 million people were infected by Zika virus in Brazil, with over 3,500 cases of infant microcephaly reported between October 2015 and January 2016.
- The epidemic also affected other parts of South and North America, as well as several islands in the Pacific.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The 2015–16 Zika virus epidemic article was read about 13,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 91 and blocks with 95: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, 2015–16 Zika virus epidemic (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
