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Posted on 01/28/2016 2:39:00 PM PST by House Atreides
The U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) is providing Department of Defense (DOD) personnel with guidance for personal protective measures in response to the mosquito-borne Zika virus outbreak in its area of operation (AOR).
Health officials have tied the Zika virus to a neurological disorder that makes pregnant women and their babies particularly vulnerable. The Zika-linked malady, known as microcephaly, is a rare birth defect in which babies are born with smaller heads than normal and often have developmental problems.
"Pregnant DoD employees and beneficiaries in Zika affected areas will be offered voluntary relocation out of the affected areas," Army Col. Lisa Garcia, a SOUTHCOM spokeswoman, told Breitbart News via email. "U.S. Southern Command has one person that is pregnant and she is scheduled to depart the area today on a permanent change of station. Her move was already scheduled before Zika."
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Pro-life on the part of our military!!!
I suspected this was coming - that they were coming.
NO NO NO NO NO
if this is happening it has been obama approved. ebola didn’t take here...maybe they can get zika to?
Isn’t it racist to abandon these poor downtrodden turd world residents in their time of need. We must increase our assistance. Especially because this ailment developed as a result of Karl Rove’s Katrina weather machine.
if this is happening it has been obama approved. ebola didn’t take here...maybe they can get zika to
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The Southern Command is NOT shipping out pregnant Americans because they have the zika virus, they’re shipping them out (voluntarily, I believe) so they don’t get bit by zika virus carrying mosquitoes and have the strong risk of their babies developing birth defects. IT’S A GOOD THING-—NOT A BAD THING that Southern Command is doing.
http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/articles/summ02/DDT.html
Bring Back DDT, and Science With It!
By Marjorie Mazel Hecht
What DDT Can Do
Banned to Kill People
The Silent Spring Fraud
POPs Convention Is Genocide
Full text of Editorial from Summer 2002 issue
The 1972 U.S. ban on DDT is responsible for a genocide 10 times larger than that for which we sent Nazis to the gallows at Nuremberg. It is also responsible for a menticide which has already condemned one entire generation to a dark age of anti-science ignorance, and is now infecting a new one.
The lies and hysteria spread to defend the DDT ban are typical of the irrationalist, anti-science wave which has virtually destroyed rational forms of discourse in our society. If you want to save science—and human lives—the fight to bring back DDT, now being championed by that very electable candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination, Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., had better be at the top of your agenda.
Sixty million people have died needlessly of malaria, since the imposition of the 1972 ban on DDT, and hundreds of millions more have suffered from this debilitating disease. The majority of those affected are children. Of the 300 to 500 million new cases of malaria each year, 200 to 300 million are children, and malaria now kills one child every 30 seconds. Ninety percent of the reported cases of malaria are in Africa, and 40 percent of the world’s population, inhabitants of tropical countries, are threatened by the increasing incidence of malaria.
The DDT ban does not only affect tropical nations. In the wake of the DDT ban, the United States stopped its mosquito control programs, cutting the budgets for mosquito control and monitoring. Exactly as scientists had warned 25 years ago, we are now facing increases of mosquito-borne killer diseases—West Nile fever and dengue, to name the most prominent.
This whole thing is insane. First of all, Zika has been around and indentified since the 1940s. It’s not very serious for people who get it and doesn’t have any lasting effects.
Any virus, including the common cold, can cause birth defects. There is actually no solid evidence that this virus “causes” microcephaly - however, if you get a virus at a certain point during fetal development, various things can ensue, depending on the stage. Sometimes it’s microcephaly or other damage, often identified by finger webbing and other signs, even if the child is carried full term. But this can happen with any virus, as I know personally.
The UN is trying to do a population control thing here, and I think soon abortions will be mandatory. If they really want to stop the mosquitoes, which are the same mosquitoes that spread yellow fever and dengue, all they have to do is use DDT.
Hysteria.
Yes.
There is zero proof it has anything to do with microcephalic births.
What little evidence there might be is a supposed increase in microcephaly in Brazil, which is probably not accurate.
Can the pregnant MEN get shipped out, too????
Be fair.
Gender neutral and all....
Ah, but will females IN the military will be shipped home as well ?
Zika Ping...
I said today, and am saying in this FR thread ... this will benefit Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry. Mark my words.
Thanks for the ping. The EPA shenanigans with DDT is going to kill us all.
It is an agency whose time has come—to go. For so many reasons, from the renewable fuels mandate to attempting to destroy the energy industries (needed to rebuild America), to environmental destruction (Animas River).
Yup, military women need no special treatment.
Interestingly, I read an article in the European press today that said Zika is likely to be used to force acceptance of abortion on Latin American countries where it is illegal or at least severely restricted. I think their agenda is pretty obvious.
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