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.
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I’ll keep my eyes peeled.
Metaphorically, that is.
There is no real connection between Zika and microcephaly, no matter what any interested party may wish to claim.
The supposed connection between the two was manufactured.
Once this connection was minted and disseminated, it netted a big fish in the form of the Vatican foolishly, and, obviously, directly in contradiction to its own heretofor exceptionless doctrine, shockingly casting a smiling gaze toward the practice of contraception by married members if the faithful living in the “affected countries”.
Given that such idiocy on the part of the Vatican was never corrected or reversed (more than likely it was just another malevolent attempt to undermine Church doctrine and weaken the faith among lay Catholics), the abiding likelihood is that a proverbial Mack Truck will eventually bust through the Zika contraception “loophole”, causing the supposed exception to swallow the rule.
Male mosquitoes do not bite which is what was released
You are mistaken. Please see my #22.
Not an expert on mosquito sex habits.
Do males impregnate females directly? They have wee little schlongs?
Or, as the saying goes, stick it in her ear?
(Laughing and barfing simultaneously)
“A new outbreak of Zika virus is quite possible, warn researchers,”
The difference between this and “an asteroid could strike the Earth at any time” is they can’t actually cause an asteroid strike.
Well, can you offer some proof of what you claim?
There are a host of studies published in the New England Journal, JAMA and other journals indicating that brain abnormalites can result from this.
Here ya go. Pretty funny movie:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1678052/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_2
“Mosquito-Man”
Jim Crawley is having a really bad day. He gets fired from his job at the nuclear power plant, his car is towed, he discovers his wife is having an affair, then a kind man who saves his life turns out to be an evil scientist. Jim is abducted by the scientist and infected with a deadly mosquito-borne virus that is spreading across the planet. Turns out all those years of exposure to nuclear radiation and rabid mosquito DNA don’t mix very well. Unfortunately for the scientist and anyone else whoever wronged Jim, vengeance comes in the form of the half man-half mosquito.
Thank you for responding.
It’s been a while since I did the deep dive, sifted through the materials I found, and concluded as I did.
Since you’ve asked, I’ll look at the collection of materials I assembled during that time and get back to you presently.
-OGINJ
OK. Thanks.
Here’s a start.
Has everyone forgotten? The massive “Zika scare” was a fake science HOAX pushed by the entire establishment media… not a single retraction ever published
07/30/2018 / By Vicki Batts
The Zika virus scare of summers past may have come and gone, but it should not be forgotten. After all, it was one of the greatest hoaxes pushed by the legacy media and their masters ever witnessed. After the initial frenzy died down, stories about the threat of Zika have all but been dropped by the media like hotcakes. How could this disease have gone from zero to 60 and back again, in such a short span of time?
Perhaps, because it was all a hoax; the Zika scare was conjured up to hide the effects of a toxic chemical pesticide being sprayed aerially in South American countries like Brazil. Since the Zika media circus first began, there have been those who questioned its validity. Was Zika truly the cause of microcephaly in thousands of Brazilian babies, or was it something more sinister?
Unraveling the Zika hoax
One of the first signs that the Zika scare was fake came in 2016: After the 2015 surge in birth defects in Brazil, which were all attributed to the disease, experts expected that a similar spike in microcephaly would come in 2016 when the virus began circulating again. Health officials posited that there would be at least 1,000 cases of the condition in 2016.
That surge in birth defects never came. Christopher Dye, from the World Health Organization, told NPR, “We apparently saw a lot of cases of Zika virus in 2016. But there was no microcephaly.”
Dye and his colleagues found that there were fewer than 100 cases of microcephaly in 2016 — a difference the expert described as “spectacular.”
“This is a huge, huge discrepancy,” Dye commented. “So what could possibly be the explanation for that?”
There are a few different ideas, according to Dye. He posits that one of the most likely hypotheses is that the cause of microcephaly in Brazil was never the Zika virus to begin with. Dye and other experts have suggested that perhaps it was another virus, or two viruses acting in synergy to cause more deleterious health effects.
While all these theories ultimately stick to the narrative that some mosquito-born illness they haven’t yet identified must be the cause, there are a few issues that are clearly being ignored. For example, Mike Adams, founder of Natural News and director of CWC Labs, reported in 2016 that the Zika virus has actually been around since the 1970s. It has never been attributed to a single case of microcephaly before 2015.
Interestingly enough, however, the pesticide being sprayed across Brazil in the months before the outbreak of “Zika” just so happens to be linked to birth defects.
Was the “Zika scare” by design?
Indeed, the same areas of Brazil afflicted by the so-called Zika crisis also happen to be the same areas where the government dumped large amounts of an insecticide, known as pyroproxyfen. Adams explains:
Those same chemicals, when ingested by pregnant women, also cause neurodevelopmental deformities in human children. This doesn’t mean that Zika can’t also cause microcephaly in rare cases, but Zika is likely to be only a minor factor that’s far outpaced by the causative factor of larvicide exposure.
Reports show that pyroproxyfen was sprayed around Brazil by the government for 18 months before the outbreak of supposedly Zika-related birth defects began. How this is not a major red flag for “health officials” is beyond comprehension.
Until, of course, you consider the fact that the globalist Bayer corporation owns the patent on pyroproxyfen. “The globalist agenda is now set in motion. Birth deformities can now be blamed on a mosquito and used to justify the release of more chemicals into the environment,” Mike Adams contends. What other sinister plans do these tyrants have coming down the pike?
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