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Zika, a Formidable Enemy, Attacks and Destroys Parts of Babies’ Brains
NY Times ^ | AUG. 23, 2016 | PAM BELLUCK

Posted on 08/23/2016 12:06:55 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt

The images tell a heartbreaking story: Zika’s calamitous attack on the brains of babies — as seen from the inside.

With a macabre catalog of brain scans and ultrasound pictures, a new study details the devastation done to 45 Brazilian babies whose mothers were infected with Zika during pregnancy. The study, published Tuesday in the journal Radiology, is the most comprehensive collection of such images so far, and it reveals a virus that can launch assaults beyond microcephaly, the condition of unusually small heads that has become the sinister signature of Zika.

Most of the babies in the study were born with microcephaly, but many of them also suffered other impairments, including damage to important parts of the brain: the corpus callosum, which connects the two hemispheres of the brain; the cerebellum, which plays a significant role in movement, balance and speech; the basal ganglia, which are involved in thinking and emotion.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: babies; babybrains; brains; photos; prenataldevelopment; zika; zikababies
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The findings also raised worrisome concerns about whether babies born without such obvious impairments could develop brain damage as they grow. For example, almost all the babies in the study had problems in the cortex, including clumps of calcium and neurons that did not reach the right location in the brain. Because the cortex keeps developing after birth, Dr. Levine said, “we’re concerned that there might be mild cases that we haven’t seen yet, and we should keep monitoring the babies after birth to see if they have cortical abnormalities.”

The images studied came from 17 babies whose mothers had a confirmed Zika infection during pregnancy and from 28 without laboratory proof but with all indications of Zika. Dr. Levine worked with colleagues in Brazil, which has had more than 1,800 cases of Zika-related microcephaly, to analyze images from the Instituto de Pesquisa in Paraiba in the northeastern part of the country. Three of the babies died in the first three days of life, and researchers studied their autopsy reports. (Photos of X-rays at source site)

1 posted on 08/23/2016 12:06:55 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...
INFECTIOUS DISEASE PING

Zika Virus - damage and impairments to babies Photos demonstrate brain damage to babies

2 posted on 08/23/2016 12:10:17 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt ( British historian Arnold Toynbee - Civilisations die from suicide, not by murder.)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt
I can think of another Formidable Enemy that destroys babie's brains in toto, and it's got about half the elected representatives in Washington DC working as lobbyists for it.
3 posted on 08/23/2016 12:12:30 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt
NY Times Compares ZIKA to Democratic Party!
4 posted on 08/23/2016 12:18:25 PM PDT by IC Ken
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To: IC Ken

https://sharylattkisson.com/35factsandcontroversiesaboutzika/

Pay particular attention to 10-17


5 posted on 08/23/2016 12:24:13 PM PDT by cumbo78
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To: cumbo78

Thanks for posting


6 posted on 08/23/2016 12:30:15 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Alinsky.....it's what's for dinner: with Cloward Piven for Dessert)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Thanks to open borders we will now have injuring American babies.

Every mom who has a baby born with a birth defect due to this virus should sue the politicians that support this unfettered immigration.


7 posted on 08/23/2016 12:30:49 PM PDT by Lera ( 1 Corinthians 15:1-4)
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I just read of a mother in Pinellas County Florida, who never traveled outside the region, and her baby came down with Zika symptoms .
So it appears that Zika seems to be spreading via "travelers".
8 posted on 08/23/2016 12:36:18 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt ( British historian Arnold Toynbee - Civilisations die from suicide, not by murder.)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Cherry picking at its’ finest.


9 posted on 08/23/2016 12:37:23 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Steely Tom

“I can think of another Formidable Enemy that destroys babie’s brains in toto, and it’s got about half the elected representatives in Washington DC working as lobbyists for it. “

And this mainly manuactured crisis is meant to cause more if it.


10 posted on 08/23/2016 12:38:24 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt
B.S. That is not science. It has not been confirmed.

"The images studied came from 17 babies whose mothers had a confirmed Zika infection during pregnancy and from 28 without laboratory proof but with all indications of Zika."

So in other words, the majority of cases could not confirm Zika as the cause, so it could be something else. Like say, agricultural toxins + degraded immune system + lack of nutritional supplementation to offset the effects during the pre-embroyotic stage?

11 posted on 08/23/2016 12:38:48 PM PDT by Salvavida (The restoration of the U.S.A. starts with filling the pews at every Bible-believing church.)
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To: cumbo78; goodnesswins

She does a good job pointing out the lack of evidence that Zika infection is causing any birth defect.

But she then starts doing the same sort of thing against the chemical, implying it is the cause without any real evidence.

She’s kind of loony tunes with the antivax and anti-corporate lunacy.

She kind of discredits herself which is too bad because the point she makes about zero evidence for Zika causing microcephaly or any birth defects is a good point.


12 posted on 08/23/2016 12:47:56 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: cumbo78

Interesting information. Have a family member is south Miami that is pregnant. Everyone is trying to get her to come up here (PA) till she delivers.


13 posted on 08/23/2016 12:51:12 PM PDT by IC Ken
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Good thing our government is importing it then, huh?


14 posted on 08/23/2016 12:56:59 PM PDT by cld51860 (Volo pro veritas)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Years ago, I read a science article about (IIRC) Microsoft working on a device that killed mosquitoes by using lasers. The device used a ranging sensor and two lasers mounted on perpendicular walls of a room. The sensor would detect a mosquito, and would direct the two lasers so they intersected at the insect, which would then be incinerated. It could track and hit an insect within a second or two, and so could clear a room of insects in fairly short order (and keep it clear) even if a window was open.

After that one article, I never heard another thing about it. Given the lefty proclivity for exploiting rather than resolving crises, I have to wonder about the absence of further development of this device, particularly with Zika now apparently spreading into the US via mosquito vector, and malaria, dengue and other insect-borne ailments seeing spikes in recent times.


15 posted on 08/23/2016 1:01:01 PM PDT by Little Pig
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To: cumbo78; ifinnegan; goodnesswins
cumbo78 :" Pay particular attention to 10-17 "

A good general article by Attkisson on the Zika virus dated july/29/2016.
However, some of that information has been updated , and was factual as of that time.
More information about Zika transmission and it's side effects are being developed, almost daily.

16 posted on 08/23/2016 1:06:14 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt ( British historian Arnold Toynbee - Civilisations die from suicide, not by murder.)
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To: Little Pig

To answer my own question (after some googling), it looks like the license holder has decided to ignore the “area denial” application, and focus on building laser “fences” that supposedly create a barrier between a mosquito source like a pond or swamp, and a village or other population center.


17 posted on 08/23/2016 1:14:26 PM PDT by Little Pig
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

What’s the most definitive article on Zika causing microcephaly?

I’d like to read it.


18 posted on 08/23/2016 2:12:44 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

So, these poor children are going to grow up to be liberals and globalists? What kind of life is that?


19 posted on 08/23/2016 2:23:21 PM PDT by freedomfiter2 (Lex rex)
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ifinnegan :" What’s the most definitive article on Zika causing microcephaly?
I’d like to read it.

Have you read this most recent article ?
It is the source for this article, as all babies had exposure to Zika and all had microcephally.
As stated in Atkissson's article, there is a statistical correlation between exposure to Zika and microcephally.
However, microcephally exists 'in the wild' ,even absent Zika, and the cause in these cases remain unknown at this time.

20 posted on 08/23/2016 3:12:06 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt ( British historian Arnold Toynbee - Civilisations die from suicide, not by murder.)
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