Posted on 08/23/2019 8:58:28 PM PDT by BenLurkin
As Zika virus raced through the Americas and the Caribbean in 2015 and 2016, it infected an estimated 800,000 people and left nearly 4000 newborns with serious brain damage. But by mid-2017, the virus had all but disappeared from the region—or so it seemed. A new analysis of Zika-infected travelers who returned to the United States or Europe in 2017 or 2018 has found that 98% had visited Cuba, which did not report any cases to world health officials at the time the country’s outbreak apparently peaked.
“It was startling,” says Kristian Andersen, a genomic epidemiologist at Scripps Research in San Diego, California, who led the work conducted by 38 researchers from five countries. The group estimates that Cuba had 5707 unreported Zika cases, with most occurring in 2017. Those numbers are similar to counts in other Caribbean islands with comparable populations 1 year earlier.
In February 2016, the Zika outbreak was so severe in South America and the Caribbean that the World Health Organization (WHO) took the rare step of declaring it a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. But by November 2016, cases in the region had fallen steeply and WHO lifted the emergency.
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I thought that Cuba’s health care was the hallmark of medical treatment in the world. Just last Michael “fat bastard” Moore.
Such exaggeration w/regard to Zika.
https://www.nature.com/news/proving-zika-link-to-birth-defects-poses-huge-challenge-1.19330
I used to hear the Cuban doctors being praised all the time, back during the Cold War, mostly.
The fat sack of sh!t wouldn't lie, would he?
Ignorant about this virus. Is the danger to pregnancy only if the woman is bitten while pregnant?
It’s not a latent issue like being bit and then getting pregnant years later?
“Is the danger to pregnancy only if the woman is bitten while pregnant?”
Yes. That’s believed to be the case.
Read the link in 3 for more info.
Vast majority of women who have a Zika infection do not have ant fetal problems.
And the above should be “Vast majority of Pregnant women who have a Zika infection do not have ant fetal problems.”
Thought it was mosquito...
;)
Lol.
“I thought that Cuba’s health care was the hallmark of medical treatment in the world.”
Comrade, you missed the subtle misdirection in the article...
“The group estimates that Cuba had 5707 unreported Zika cases, with most occurring in 2017.”
So you see comrade... Even the capitalist pigs at this group admit there were zero cases of Zika because none were REPORTED. They use their flimsy lying estimates to disrespect the finest medical system in the world.
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