Posted on 01/13/2016 9:33:35 PM PST by VanShuyten
Federal health officials are debating whether to warn pregnant women against travel to Brazil and other Latin American and Caribbean countries where mosquitoes are spreading the Zika virus, which has been linked to brain damage in newborn babies.
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A few isolated cases have been found in the United States, including one in Texas last wee k. However, all were in people who had just returned from overseas. No transmission within the 50 states has been found. Only one case has been confirmed in Puerto Rico, but because testing is rare and many cases involve mild or no symptoms, doctors assume there are many more there.
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Could easily spread to the southern US.
heard a radio news report where the obama regime blamed climate change for the one person who got it here yet that person traveled too latin america and caught the virus there!
Easy, peasy.
Put Joe Biden in charge of finding a cure for the Zika virus.
Possible interest ping.
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