Posted on 02/11/2016 9:30:52 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski
Large numbers of babies with borderline normal head sizes were born in Brazil as far back as 2012, two years before the Zika virus is thought to have entered the country, say researchers searching for answers to urgent questions. Pediatric cardiologist Dr. Sandra Mattos had been collecting data on 100,000 newborns in the Brazilian state of Paraiba as part of her work studying and treating congenital heart disease. The microcephaly fears linked to the Zika virus drove her team to check back into hospital records for head circumferences of more than 1,600 babies born in the state in the last four years.
"We were very, very surprised," Mattos said. Babies with mild microcephaly were present in the population dating back to at least 2012. Having a head slightly smaller than the limit doesn't mean there's neurological disease. "Borderline cases seem to be present all along," she said.
Brazilian authorities set the criterion for microcephaly, a measurement of head size, at 32 centimetres for full-term births. Doctors were asked to report babies at or below that level for further investigation. Mattos said the data analysis also confirmed the number of severe microcephaly cases increased starting in October or November of 2014. Scientists think the original reports of 4,700 suspected cases were inflated by over-reporting that didn't stand up when specialists examined the babies. Brazil's Ministry of Health said Tuesday that 404 cases have been confirmed as involving microcephaly or other nervous system disorders and 709 have been ruled out. The other cases remain under investigation...
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"Zika is generally mild and only causes symptoms in one in five people. It is spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which also spreads dengue and chikungunya."
Could the virus have mutated causing deformities? Possibly. However, Occam's Razor might suggest another option. In early 2015 a new TDAP shot (vaccination) was made compulsory in Brazil (which coincides with the timing of the newborns born with defects.) Veterinarians routinely avoid using medications, drugs, and vaccines in pregnant or lactating animals. Why? Vaccine components that are modified live could conceivably cross the placenta and cause defects or deaths of the fetuses...
Matthew 24:7 ... and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. 8 All * these are the beginning of sorrows.
Clearly it is not and that has been clear from the beginning.
The odds that ANY government would own up to a vaccination causing birth defects are 0%.
Can you clarify what IS clear?
Please try to understand what you posted.
There is not an increase in microcephalic births.
It was an artifact.
Thanks for posting this. I am sending a ping to Smoki’ Joe, because I think he might find it interesting.
“Evidence is mounting that the Zika virus may not be the cause of birth defects in Brazil.”
This is clear.
Agreed!
There’s been a Zika outbreak in D.C. for decades.
LOL! The shrunken heads ARE leading the country, but not because of Zika. Our leaders have caught a different virus called, “PC Liberalism”.
Zika may turn out to be a big nothingburger, exaggerated by Zero Population Growth activists to discourage reproduction and loosen abortion laws in Latin America.
That is definitely a possibility as well! Scare everyone with pictures of kids born with shrunken heads coercing them into abortions and birth control. Question is...do these South American governments know that something big is going to happen in 2016?
Ping!
Interesting...
Thanks for the ping.
Zika is NOT the cause of the microcephaly. There is zero evidence of any causal relationship and plenty to disprove one.
The big story is how the global cabal can make a “non fact” worldwide news overnight.
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