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Professor Trudie Lang highlights the potential dangers posed by the mosquito-borne Zika virus, urging the international community to learn from the Ebola epidemic to act sooner. In a detailed Q&A on the Oxford University science blog, she discusses efforts to build local research capacity to meet the next epidemic.