Z for Zika
I guess we better hurry up and fund that grant now, shouldn’t we?
Yet another consequence of the commie libs’ “open borders”. There were reasons for nations having their own laws and borders. We’re all about to find out what those reasons are and it’s going to hurt. A lot. Then again, stupidity should always have to hurt.
Z for Zika
We’re all going to die!
Too late.
We already all died from SARS. And ebola. And bird flu. And swine flu.
Fool me once ...
Maybe it’s time to do something radical, like introduce DDT and kill off a significant number of the carrier population.
Oh, wait, it’s much better to control the impact through abortions and birth control...(/s)
There is still no definitive link between the Zika virus and birth defects. The fact that a correlation only appeared in Brazil, but never before in the history of the virus is highly suggestive that something else is going on.
Also, the headline is misleading. Viruses mutate constantly, it's what they do. Does that really signify much? No, unless you happen to be a geek (like me) who likes to construct phylogenetic trees of viruses to track their spread. Otherwise, a set of mutations that causes a virus to become more virulent and contagious is incredibly rare and unlikely. That's because viruses are very specific about how they cause disease, and any mutation that changes that specificity decreases the virus's ability to survive.
Buh bye everybody. Or not. I coulda sworn we’d all be dead from aids by now anyway no matter what you do. Does anyone think a few doses of DDT might solve the skeeter problem? To heck with the ecowacko greenatics.
DDT
Speaking of viral infections,...who else has had, “The Cough”?
5 weeks now, and the 4th iteration.
Everybody I know in SoCA has had it and the only commentary is of Whooping Cough in epidemic proportions, which I think is a variation of the infection.
A Z-pak helps any infection, but doesn’t cure the cough. Purely a head cold symptom, with periodic post nasal drip.
I’ve known some folks who have taken 4 Z-Paks in 5 weeks,..not good. We’ll hold it down to one after about 3 weeks and call it hay fever.
We had the same thing about 4 years ago. Only happens at the change of seasons and about a 5 day incubation period.
Don’t know if it’s contagious or just pollen / allergy related with springtime reappearing with fluctuations cold waves.
Anybody else? (Misery loves company, don’t you know...?)
Zika Virus/ Infectious Disease Ping
Or it might not. Probably won’t. But we haven’t freaked out about a disease in like a year, so it’s time to PANIC (funky big zoomy graphicc, horns, other stupid things).
Yet according to Obama we overreacted during ebola scare a couple of years ago.
...and only more money can save us.
How many times are they going to pull this “world coming to an end” cr*p?
And just as important, how many time are we expected to fall for it.
Want to solve the problem, DDT.
Right now this issue in our area N of Gay Frisco is probably under diagnosed and will be under reported. It is not just pregnant women at danger. GBS* has happened with patients with the Zika virus.
In spite of one documented Zika case and sudden GBS* attacks on both a compromised and a uncompromised patients making them unable to swallow for several weeks. Neither of these patients had recent flu shots as a possible cause of their GBS.
A major out patient lab in this area, as of last week, is still not testing for the Zika virus.
*GBS = Guillain–Barré syndrome - Wikipedia, the free …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillain-Barré_syndrome
Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS) is a rapid-onset muscle weakness caused by the immune system damaging the peripheral nervous system.
GBS associated with Zika virus: https://www.bing.com/search?q=gbs%20and%20zika%20virus&pc=cosp&ptag=C1A0E8C88C5FC&form=CONBDF&conlogo=CT3210127
I’d say humans have other mutating viruses to worry about more...ie...sexual perversion virus etc.
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
Oh geez.
Scare-of-the-month club. How are those killer bees getting along? Weren’t they supposed to take over the world by now? There are a lot of other ones I could mention, but they don’t seem to have much staying power. We were all supposed to be dead of AIDS by 2000 anyway. Maybe Y2K cured AIDS. Remember what a panic Y2K caused here on FR? I wonder what happened to all the nut-jobs preaching doom here?
