Posted on 04/05/2016 10:44:29 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Top Zika investigators now believe that the birth defect microcephaly and the paralyzing Guillain-Barre syndrome may be just the most obvious maladies caused by the mosquito-borne virus.
Fueling that suspicion are recent discoveries of serious brain and spinal cord infections - including encephalitis, meningitis and myelitis - in people exposed to Zika.
Evidence that Zika's damage may be more varied and widespread than initially believed adds pressure on affected countries to control mosquitoes and prepare to provide intensive - and, in some cases, lifelong - care to more patients. The newly suspected disorders can cause paralysis and permanent disability -
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Zika Ping...
Thanks, Tilted Irish Kilt, for the head’s up!
Thanks for the ping. We are going to have a very long and extended winter ahead of us. Sadly.
Bring back DDT and let these people live.
Screw the leftist-led EPA and environmental wackos.
DDT works, and works well.
At last a well written, understandable article about the Zika virus.
She’ll be fired tomorrow.
Winter I don’t mind. When the puddles melt, the skeeters can be a problem, and they are notorious here (Lewis and Clark commented in their journals on the vicious nature of the mosquitoes near the confluence of the Missouri and the Yellowstone). That much has not changed...
I'd LOL!, but you may be right. I agree about the DDT. Contain the virus by stopping the vector.
I wonder if that works anymore. With high-density populations in deforested and swampy areas and mass migrations of people from war-torn and otherwise impoverished areas, isn't the spread of disease inevitable? These are diseases that diminish a person's physical and mental capacities for life. It's straight out of Science Fiction.
Add to that the Olympics in very dirty, mosquito-laden and overpopulated areas of Brazil, and YIKES!
No, she did what she was supposed to do: make it sound even scarier than we thought, so that more women will choose to abort.
Zika, I believe, doesn’t spread from person to person. Yet. But lots of other diseases do.
We need to remember how yellow fever was brought under control and use DDT in a6wise way.
Two books in the 20th century killed more than 100 million people each.
Mein Kampf.
Silent Spring.
I just did a quick check “how does Zika spread”? There’s definitely sexual transmission, and there’s question about how long the virus stays in ones system. It’s a relatively new epidemic disease, at least in terms of being identified. The information keeps evolving.
Hitler only murdered 20 million, so “Mein Kamph” is out of the running
“The Little Red Book” of Mao could be said to have murdered 153 million however.
While the former two have documentation, “Silent Spring” can only be attributed to all those who died of malaria after the ban on DDT.
DDT is the only real solution to eliminating mosquitoes en mass.
ZIKA = CIA
To some extent it does. If there is no means of transmitting the virus, the virus dies with the hosts.
Because this virus is sexually transmitted, too, and possibly through blood products (as yet not addressed), it may never be wiped out. Even vaccines are not 100% effective.
Similarly, mosquitoes are remarkably tenacious critters, and even if flushed out of low lying areas by a flood will return in a matter of a few years to former levels (as happened in the Missouri River bottoms here a few years ago).
However, reducing the vector (mosquito population) reduces opportunities for transmission; the more effectively the population of conveying insects is reduced, the fewer people will get the disease. That requires not just the use of pesticides, but effectively reducing breeding areas, too.
The rest is human behaviour, and that remains a wild card.
Mao's Little Red Book is way up there, too, if not vying for number one.
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