If Phosphatidylserine gets exposed it will WITHOUT DISCRIMINATION affect and bind ALL above PS receptors at the SAME TIME thereby implementing a global/upstream/systemic strategy to suppress the Immune System from intervening in the Natural Cell Death cycle (apoptosis).
Regarding AXL:
The new research also suggests that Zika virus learned to exploit something of a secret passage, a cell surface molecule known as AXL, while West Nile and dengue viruses did not.
"Zika uses AXL to efficiently slip past one of the major barrier cell types in the placenta: fetal endothelial cells, which are the gateway to access fetal circulation," said Choe. ...