[Tilted Irish Kilt]

"The central concept behind our approach is that of the 'first-wave' epidemic. Zika and other mosquito-borne viruses have been known to exhibit explosive outbreaks, infecting as much as 75 percent of a population in a single year," the team wrote in their report, published in the journal Nature Microbiology.

"We think these projections may be pretty good for a location where Zika shows up and starts an epidemic, but at the same time we acknowledge that due simply to random chance and the fact that some places are relatively isolated and sparsely populated, the virus won't make it to every single corner of the continent," Notre Dame's Alex Perkins said in a statement.

Zika's known to cause a range of birth defects, from brain damage that leads to an unusually small head, called microcephaly, to more subtle nerve, organ and limb defects.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

INFECTIOUS DISEASE PING

ZIKA - The first Wave

[Vaquero]

DDT. Lots of it. 100% safe for humans. Look it up.

[Romans Nine]

Every year the CDC and WHO comes out with some new scare that is going to infect the world.

I am the only one that notices this?

Hmmmmm let me think why would they do that?

[grania]

This is an incredibly hot summer in the US. Will that enable Zika to take hold in large swaths of the US?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Zika is just another manufactured crisis for the Lefties to not let go to waste.

http://www.caribbean360.com/news/no-connection-zika-microcephaly-new-study-claims

[bgill]

Wet bathroom floors are a greater risk to not only pg women but to all humans and pets.

[LadyDoc]

So far it seems only 1 percent have handicapped babies.