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Zika virus may be one step away from explosive outbreak
BBC.com ^ | 4/12/2022 | Michelle Roberts

Posted on 04/12/2022 2:45:07 PM PDT by mykroar

A new outbreak of Zika virus is quite possible, warn researchers, with a single mutation potentially enough to trigger an explosive spread.

The disease caused a global medical emergency in 2016, with thousands of babies born brain-damaged after their mums became infected while pregnant.

US scientists say the world should be on the lookout for new mutations.

Lab work, described in the journal Cell Reports, suggests the virus could easily shift, creating new variants.

Recent infection studies suggest those variants may prove effective at transmitting the virus, even in countries which have built up immunity from previous outbreaks of Zika, say the team from the La Jolla Institute for Immunology.

Experts said the findings, although theoretical, were interesting - and a reminder that viruses other than Covid could pose a threat.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: mutation; outbreak; virus; zika
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I found when searching to see if this was previously posted, that there were two articles posted yesterday about the mosquito release in Cali. So this will be the near FearPron until they can get the next couf ramped up.

Note in the first few paragraphs: possible, potentially, suggests, could, suggest, may, theoretical, could

So mask up and grab your netting.

1 posted on 04/12/2022 2:45:07 PM PDT by mykroar
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To: mykroar

Booger-Bear of the Week!


2 posted on 04/12/2022 2:46:16 PM PDT by lee martell (u)
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To: mykroar

May be, may be...


3 posted on 04/12/2022 2:47:36 PM PDT by Bloodandgravy (Become passers-by.)
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To: mykroar

Mosquitos are generally not a problem in November, but the Dems will demand mail-in voting, anyway.


4 posted on 04/12/2022 2:47:44 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: mykroar

Billions of genetically modified mosquitoes will be released in the US. Here’s why

https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/genetically-modified-mosquitoes-released-15032022/


5 posted on 04/12/2022 2:49:44 PM PDT by House Atreides
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To: mykroar

Stop and reverse all immigration


6 posted on 04/12/2022 2:50:01 PM PDT by toddausauras (How far will the left go in terms of destroying our personal freedoms?)
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To: mykroar

The sky is falling once again. Crisis after crisis is manufactured to keep the proles in constant fear.


7 posted on 04/12/2022 2:50:47 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: mykroar

Ah, today’s daily mandatory medical fear porn.
The media is floundering, though. I’ve still not seen the daily mandatory climate fear porn. But, the afternoon is young....


8 posted on 04/12/2022 2:50:59 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: mykroar

It’s like Christmas Eve the doc fauci.


9 posted on 04/12/2022 2:52:22 PM PDT by Leep (Freedom: "What's the big deal" -joe biden)
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To: mykroar

It’s like Christmas Eve FOR doc fauci.


10 posted on 04/12/2022 2:52:49 PM PDT by Leep (Freedom: "What's the big deal" -joe biden)
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It’s apparently a very mild disease itself, but causes problems for unborn babies.

So Fauci wouldn’t exactly have the field day with it he’s had with Covid.


11 posted on 04/12/2022 2:56:42 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: House Atreides
What could go wrong?


12 posted on 04/12/2022 2:57:25 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Jamestown1630

He’d love all the abortions this would ensure to happen. He’d be in seventh heaven.


13 posted on 04/12/2022 2:58:31 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: lee martell

So THIS is gonna the mid-term’s virus, huh.


14 posted on 04/12/2022 3:04:28 PM PDT by Afterguard (Deplorable me! )
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To: mykroar

Does it ever end?


15 posted on 04/12/2022 3:09:30 PM PDT by rdl6989 ( )
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To: Afterguard

We shall see. I hope not, because it’s a birth defect with no cure.


16 posted on 04/12/2022 3:12:08 PM PDT by lee martell (u)
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I guess fausti is involved with funding a lab in China that is working with the Zika virus. Bill Gates has a patent on the Zika DNA. Pfizer has new vaccines that they say 40% of the time it works every time.
17 posted on 04/12/2022 3:20:19 PM PDT by Rdct29 (Democrats are the new Nazi's. They think they deserve total control over the people)
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To: mykroar

Gee, what could possibly have weakened women’s immune systems?


18 posted on 04/12/2022 3:27:50 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: mykroar

If the oligarchy can get the sheeple to keep taking the ‘booster clot shots’ their immune systems will be so weak that a common cold or flu will kill millions. By design


19 posted on 04/12/2022 3:30:00 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: mykroar

Making covid Zika again. 😆


20 posted on 04/12/2022 3:31:48 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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