New Zika zone, Miami FL

A number of newly identified people with Zika, two women, three men in Miami, Florida. All "non-travel related" so were likely infected locally, bitten by carriers (mosquitoes) or through sexual activities.

Zika 'outbreak' in Miami, Florida

The Florida Department of Health has gathered enough information as part of its ongoing investigation into non-travel related cases of Zika in Miami-Dade and Broward counties to conclude that a high likelihood exists that four cases are the result of local transmission. 

http://www.floridahealth.gov/newsroom/2016/07/072916-local-zika.html

Zika & FEMALE sexual transmission

The "First female-to-male sexual transmission of Zika virus infection reported in New York City" is important to note for a couple of interesting, and seemingly tangential, reasons; 1) reveals the misandrist overtones of press and media that hitherto all but 'blamed' spread of the disease on men. 2) further exposes the equally misandrist language suggesting women were previously unable to spread the disease because they don't engage in 'male' behaviours (hidden code for 'aggressive', 'warlike' and other synonyms associated with 'maleness'), rather than due to biological inhibitions. 3) that women are now openly documented as a vector of infection (although press coverage of this fact was and is limited/suppressed).

Zika virus & Guillain-Barre syndrome

Abstract 
Zika fever, considered as an emerging disease of arboviral origin, because of its expanding geographic area, is known as a benign infection usually presenting as an influenza-like illness with cutaneous rash. So far, Zika virus infection has never led to hospitalisation. We describe the first case of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) occurring immediately after a Zika virus infection, during the current Zika and type 1 and 3 dengue fever co-epidemics in French Polynesia.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?cmd=Retrieve&list_uids=24626205&dopt=Abstract

[EDIT] Some discussion has occurred in relation to this finding between the authors and a number of commentators, some of which can be found here in The Lancet - http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(16)30773-5/fulltext

Zika Virus (I). Isolations and serological specificity

Per previous post, no 'patent' data is attributed to Zika, only information pertaining to it's discovery and initial isolation (link may be a bit temperamental). 'Outbreaks' had been rare, and infections insignificant, until recent decades where it's rapid spread has been attributed to living conditions in effected areas promoting increases in the primary vector, mosquitoes, although Zika has also been recorded suspected to have been transmitted through sexual contact.