“…Very recently the WHO Zika Sexual Transmission Research Group framework (Kim et al, 2018), as well as other authors (Kumar, 2018), have had discussions regarding the pending issues for establishing pathways and transmission rates of this virus by sexual contact. It has been hypothesized, right after the beginning of the outbreak in Latin America and the Caribbean, that this would be of importance and may play an even more important role in maintaining endemic rates during interepidemic periods, especially when taking into account the long persistence of the Zika virus (ZIKV) in semen.…”