Zika Virus Response

CDC’s Emergency Operations Center (EOC) activated for the Zika response on January 22, 2016, to assist state, tribal, local, and territorial jurisdictions with a wide range of response activities.

These activities included:

• tracking the spread of Zika virus and other mosquito-borne viruses in the United States and around the world
• training disease detectives to find and report Zika cases
• teaching healthcare providers how to identify Zika
• educating the public about the virus
• testing samples for Zika and providing laboratories with diagnostic tests