Zika Forest
Meanings
name
- An area of tropical forest near Entebbe, Uganda, owned by the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI), used for mosquito research, where the Zika virus was first isolated and described.
Word forms
Etymology
From Luganda zika (“become overgrown; go out of cultivation”).
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