The current Zika epidemic in Latin America is likely to burn itself out within three years researchers have predicted. Zika is a disease caused and spread through Aedes aegypti mosquito bites and was declared a public health emergency of international concern by the World Health Organisation earlier this year. Read: Scientists discover protein that fights Zika. The findings showed that the epidemic cannot be contained with existing control measures but the next large-scale epidemic was unlikely to emerge for at least another ten years -- although there is a possibility of smaller outbreaks in this period. Read: Zika vaccines maybe
