the epidemic. so scientists focused on the root of the problem the virus itself. in the. tongue emigrated from china to the united states to study viruses use always interesting viral viruses are so clever so efficient it s fast and. when the zeek epidemic broke out in brazil his team were busy studying other viruses transmitted by mosquitoes they dropped everything to focus on instead. they were able to basically stop what we were doing kind of pulls the k. animal switch them out at that point. the team set