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CDC Issues Travel Warnings for 14 Latin American, Caribbean Nations Exposed to Zika Virus
The Latin Post ^
| Jan 18, 2016
| KJ Mariño
Posted on 01/18/2016 2:47:38 PM PST by Smokin' Joe
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recently issued a travel warning for 14 Latin American nations and Caribbean territories that have exposed to Zika virus, a mosquito-borne virus connected to the increasing rate of birth defects in Brazil. The alert was issued late Friday and it includes Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Martinique, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Suriname, Venezuela and Puerto Rico.
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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: immigration; infectiousdisease; virus; zika
This mosquito borne disease causes serious birth defects, more at the link.
To: Smokin' Joe
Another wonderful disease that DREAMERS can share with us.
I just feel all tingly!
/S
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posted on
01/18/2016 2:52:34 PM PST
by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...
Zika Virus ping....
Thanks, Whenifhow, for the heads up!
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posted on
01/18/2016 2:53:45 PM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: Pontiac
Another cheap souvenir of that Cruise...
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posted on
01/18/2016 2:55:31 PM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: Smokin' Joe
Zika virus (ZIKV) is a member of the Flaviviridae virus family and the Flavivirus genus, transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes.
In humans, it causes a mild illness known as zika, Zika disease, or Zika fever, which since the 1950s has been known to occur within a narrow equatorial belt from Africa to Asia. In 2014, the virus spread eastward across the Pacific to French Polynesia, then to Easter Island and in 2015 to South America, Central America, and the Caribbean and is now considered pandemic.
The illness is like a mild form of dengue fever, is treated by bedrest, and cannot be prevented by drugs or vaccines.
Zika disease is related to yellow fever and West Nile disease, which are caused by other arthropod-borne flaviviruses.
A link to microcephaly in fetuses born to infected mothers is now thought possible.Mosquitos...a pox on them!
Time to fog the neighborhood, put up bigger and meaner screens and...then MOVE.
To: Smokin' Joe
When is it going to issue travel warnings to 17 European countries exposed to a far worse virus, Jihaddi Muzzis?
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posted on
01/18/2016 3:31:47 PM PST
by
PAR35
To: PAR35
Seems West Africa has Boko Haram problems, and even with Ebola thrown in, they wouldn’t restrict travel...
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posted on
01/18/2016 3:36:30 PM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: Smokin' Joe
Don’t worry - don’t go. 0bama is letting them in and you can get it for free without having to pay for a vacation there.
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posted on
01/18/2016 4:06:23 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
To: Smokin' Joe
Thanks for the ping. If it is Haiti, then it is also in the Dominican Republic. The public health sector at the border is very underfunded there.
I actually did need to know this. I am involved in some humanitarian medical work there on the side.
This just makes poverty all that more worse.
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posted on
01/18/2016 4:25:52 PM PST
by
PA Engineer
(Liberate America from the Occupation Media. #2ndAmendmentMatters)
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