KLouis

The link is a review article published in Emerging Infectious Diseases. The authors have performed a wide search of the literature and mention a one-sentence summary of what has been described/claimed by others in previous publications. As far as the neurological disorders are concerned, they cite a WHO page on the Zika situation that is no longer available and which has been replaced by a new one. There, as far as neurologic disorders are concerned, only Guillain-Barré syndrome is mentioned and, anecdotally through a link, CNS inflammatory cases in French Polynesia (none described in Latin America).

The Guillain-Barré syndrome is indeed a serious disease, which affects the peripheral nervous system and not the brain, and you really don't want to ever get it. But Zika has not been credibly found to affect, in any sense, the brain as you wrote, with the exception of the mentioned cases in French Polynesia (none described in Latin America) and microcephaly (affects the newborn of pregnant women infected early in pregnancy). My point certainly is not that Zika is a harmless disease but, rather, that one should not post info or make other statements based on facts that (s)he does not understand. It is certainly not helpful. FT is supposed to deal with travel and giving epidemiological advice (directly or indirectly) is anything but helpful: Ἀπόδοτε οὖν τὰ Καίσαρος Καίσαρι... (Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's...)