[The technoscientific production of zika virus and zika disease: risks and insecurity in the health field].

This article discusses the technoscientific production of the zika virus and disease and some implications for the health field. Articles on zika published between 1952 and 2014 were analyzed. The elements of scientific statements were collected and organized in a logical-temporal sequence. Three epistemic-discursive moments in the constitution of zika were characterized: experimental object, epidemiological object, and emergent object. In this constitutive trajectory, the central and paradoxical role of technoscientific development was highlighted. As more specialized and advanced knowledge on and techniques for the virus and disease investigation were produced, more detailed, complex ways of understanding them were created, composing a scenario of greater risks and insecurity for the health field.