Posted on 06/17/2016 1:50:18 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
About 1.1% of blood donors in Puerto Rico are testing positive for the Zika virus. The blood screening suggests that about 25% of the island’s population will catch Zika this year.
The Zika virus is spreading “rapidly” in Puerto Rico and now likely afflicts 2% of the island’s population with active infections, public health officials reported on Friday, based on tests of blood donors.
At current infection rates, one-quarter of the island’s 3.5 million people will eventually acquire the mosquito-borne illness, U.S. CDC officials said. Current estimates are that 1% to 13% of babies born to women infected with Zika during pregnancy will suffer from microcephaly, a severe shrunken brain and skull syndrome.
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Why is tha amazing it’s a vector for one but not the other.
Goes back to 1947.
Too bad the CDC’s initial reaction to zika was a bunch of lies about funding & budget in an attempt to get LOTs of money from congress. I don’t trust them on zika (or other things for that matter). Is there a real problem or are they trying to get money by exaggerating.
I know there’s a real problem, but is this a case where Obama should find a way to give them more (e.g. out of green energy funds) or where Congress really needs to appropriate more. I’d bet they can find $2 billion from programs that are not as critical. Obama needs to prioritize rather than demand money for anything he wants. The girls can skip their upcoming vacation and save a few million if this is really critical.
True , and at that point there was only fever and a rash.
The microcephaly seems to be associated only with the Brazilian variant of the virus.
With the scheduled games in Brazil, this variant could spread internationally.
There is still much to learn about the Zika virus as the incidence of microcephaly has previously been unknown.
It equally affect men and women. Both can cause the other to become infected through bodily fluid exchange.
It becomes most apparent when a pregnant woman gives birth and you see the baby.
This is tragic.
What lab did this emerge from?
Virus isolation in monkeys and mosquitoes, 1947
The virus was first isolated in April 1947 from a rhesus macaque monkey that had been placed in a cage in the Zika Forest of Uganda, near Lake Victoria, by the scientists of the Yellow Fever Research Institute.[73] A second isolation from the mosquito A. africanus followed at the same site in January 1948.[74] When the monkey developed a fever, researchers isolated from its serum a “filterable transmissible agent” that was named Zika in 1948.[21][75]
Wikipedia
Mosquitos carry the HIV virus for a very short time but it gets digested and broken down quickly. Zika doesn’t.
A woman came here from Honduras to,give birth to a Zika baby last week
300 pregnant Zika infected women now known in US
http://www.avianflutalk.com/amost-300-pregnant-women-with-zika-in-us_topic35687.html
And the good news is is a stampede of Puertexicans, can come to our shores totally legally
You’re thinking of ting-tang-walla-walla-bing-bang
Independence. Problem solved.
Unknown lab.
The statement came from CDC officials, who I am sure have statisticians on their staff. Given the recent increase in Zika numbers, I believe that the 25 % infection rate is what they expect to see this year.
it’s been found to be persistent in male semen. There are several suspected cases of zika being sexually transmitted as well as mosquito transmitted
https://www.statnews.com/2016/02/12/zika-semen/
http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/22/5/16-0107_article
1947. Uganda. it took until 2014(!) to make it across the ocean to the South America. Which gets my conspiracy juices flowing. It made it across the lower hemisphere of asia, but NOT china, russia, or Europe? If Russia backs out of the Olympics, we'll know for sure something's going on.
http://www.zikavirusnet.com/history-of-zika.html
Anyone visiting Puerto Rico on their way to the Rio olympics?
there are rich powerful interests who believe the world population should be culled by over 90%
stopping the procreation of children will accomplish that
It’s all bullshit. I live in Puerto Rico. I don’t know of anyone who has gotten this zika. I don’t know of anybody who knows anyone who has gotten this zika. There are a few other mosquito-born diseases that get spread around here frequently, and zika ain’t one of them. There have been many thousands of births on the island this year, and none with any zika-related issues.
It is all bullshit. People here are more concerned with the common mosquito-borne dengue virus than they are of zika. To us, zika is akin to the chupacabra. A legend. A rumor. A government-induced “crisis”
It’s all bullshit.
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