Posted on 01/27/2016 6:28:12 PM PST by Marie
The Zika virus, a disease suspected of causing birth defects which spread across much of Latin America in 2015, has now reached the United States.
A young girl who traveled from Los Angeles County to El Salvador was infected with the mosquito-transmitted disease, according to the local department of public health.
The girl has now recovered, but it’s not the adults infected with the disease who are especially at risk—it’s the unborn. The Zika virus is linked to microcephaly, a birth defect where the infant is born with an abnormally small brain. The majority of children born with the disease suffer from mental retardation, according to the Cleveland Clinic.
The number of infants born with the defect jumped up by a factor of 20 in Brazil after the Zika virus swept across Brazil in 2015, and a number of countries have advised that women to not get pregnant for a few months, or in the case of El Salvador, a few years.
Although transmission has yet to occur in the United States, it remains a possibility.
“Aedes mosquitos, the species of mosquito that can transmit Zika, are present in the San Gabriel Valley and in the Eastern part of the county,†the L.A. County Department of Public Health said in a statement. “At this time, local transmission is unlikely. It would require an Aedes mosquito biting a Zika infected person and then biting others.â€
The Zika virus was first discovered in Africa in 1947, and spread to Latin America in 2015. It has now spread to 22 countries, including Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Venezuela.
Oh Joy...yet another gift from the THIRD WORLD.
That reminds me. Walking Dead starts up Feb 14th.
Ping.
This is ILLEGAL ALIENS!!! Why are we inflicting this on our children!! STOP THIS MADNESS!!
The Zika virus was first discovered in Africa in 1947...
Discovered? shouldn’t it be uncovered?
anyway, from Africa to South America to here.
or sometimes just straight here.
Ping... (Thanks, PA Engineer!)
Courtesy of the Cheap Labor Whores.
“Oh Joy...yet another gift from the THIRD WORLD.”
Brought to you courtesy of the Treason Lobby, the bipartisan campaign to enrich America with the tertium mundi.
Keep bringin’ them in, “elites”
Or it may just be somebody who went on a cruise in the Caribbean.
A vaccine is 10 years down the road.This virus can cause a lot of grief in 10 years.
Another source of Democrat voters.
Thanks are due to the Catholic bishops and the rest of the Democrat machine.
Well, they can always have abortions, don’cha know. /s
honestly, they are telling women not to have children for two years.
that’s incredible.
imagine telling 300 million people not to have kids for two years?!?!
Deported once and then snuck back in again?
I always remember the plot of the sci-fi movie where everyone gets some sort of mild flu where the result is it makes all the men sterile.
This is pretty close to that.
We shouldn’t screw around like we did with AIDS. There we could have stopped it early but didn’t because of political correctness.
IT IS A MEXICAN CHILD!!
Can you imagine... no babies for a decade?
A young woman traveled to El Salvador... then came back with the disease. Not Mexican.
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