Zika is the most overrated virus around. It was first discovered in 1947 and treatment for it is the same for a cold or mild flu. The links to microcaphaly tenuous at best with zero cases of microcephaly being reported prior to 2014. What did change in 2014 is massive use of pesticides to attempt at mosquito control in the Amazon and the release of genetically modified mosquitoes there. Guess where else they are spraying pesticides and introducing GM mosquitos. South Florida.
How do you explain Zika virus infecting the placenta (which should act as a barrier to protect the unborn), which has now been proven.
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2016/08/18/study-sheds-light-on-how-zika-infects-placenta.html
Zika has been around for a while in a local of Africa. Suddenly it is going worldwide and being associated to neurological problems. A few possibilities exist that I can think of.
Could it be it was innocuous within a population that had adapted to it? Even this article says that most people don’t have signs. If those most susceptible to the virus were already weeded out then it would seem like nothing worse than a cold or flu.
Alternatively could it be spreading farther because it has picked up a mutation that makes it more communicable and or more dangerous? Every few years we get a new variant of the flu that is deadly to a portion of the population, like H1N1 5 or 6 years ago.
In any case in the absence of good information it will be hard to convince the wife to let me take the family into a Zika infested area unless of course there is an outbreak of it here.
I don’t know anything about these GM modified mosquitos you mentioned. As far as I know the GM mosquitoes were still a hypothetical mentioned as a way to control mosquitoes in response to Zika. And we’ve been spraying mosquito pesticides for decades, though unfortunately not DDT which was the most effective.
In 1900 and 1906 we were taught how to win this WAR.
In 1959 we were given a new weapon to use in this war.
Care to cite who the Lead warriors were and what the new weapon was.