London. Another important international acknowledgment for the Bruno Kessler Foundation in the field of virology. The results of a scientific research on the Zika virus conducted by FBK researchers, Stefano Merler and Piero Poletti, with the ISI Foundation of Turin, Boston’s Northeastern University, the University of Florida, and the University of Washington, was published in the latest issue of the PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) – one of the world’s most popular journals in the field of research. The study shows that the outbreak of the virus has been mainly determined by climatic factors and human mobility. (9colonne)