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Two babies born in California with Zika-related severe birth defect
Sacramento Bee ^ | August 4, 2016 | Jack Chang

Posted on 08/04/2016 12:24:58 PM PDT by artichokegrower

Two babies in California have been born with the severe birth defect microcephaly after their mothers were infected with the Zika virus while traveling in foreign countries where the virus is common, state public health officials announced Thursday.

Due to privacy concerns, state officials would not release any more information about who the mothers are, where they live and where they traveled to, other than to say the cases occurred this year. They are the first reported cases of babies born with microcephaly in the state in connection with the Zika virus.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: obamasfault
Their privacy concerns overrule the security concerns of American citizens. Infected mothers from foreign countries can come here infected with the Zika virus, have their child in a hospital with the bill covered by the American taxpayer and that child is automatically an American citizen whose long term care will be paid for by the American taxpayer.
1 posted on 08/04/2016 12:24:58 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

You nailed it!


2 posted on 08/04/2016 12:32:59 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: artichokegrower

Suppress the patient info so no one can find the water treatment cause ...
It was on FR in the past days the tie in to water treatment as in pesticide where the birth defects occured.


3 posted on 08/04/2016 12:38:28 PM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
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To: artichokegrower

This way no one can do a fact check.

How convenient.


4 posted on 08/04/2016 12:39:28 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: artichokegrower

Did it say these mother’s were from foreign countries? Thank goodness mosquitoes can’t get to the U.S..


5 posted on 08/04/2016 12:42:56 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: George from New England
I hate to quote Snopes, but they had a good take in the issue of pesticides being responsible for the microcephaly cases

http://www.snopes.com/zika-microcephaly-outbreak-pesticide/

...The origin of the pesticide theory was, surprise surprise, a small physicians’ group that campaigns against pesticides. The group hasn’t done any epidemiology to demonstrate that people exposed to the pesticide are more likely to have babies with microcephaly; it has simply laid out an argument. The mainstream groups, looking at this problem holistically, have said there’s much better evidence that mosquitoes are hurting people than the evidence (and there’s no evidence, really) that the stuff killing mosquitoes is hurting people.

...This claim is not plausible. The pesticide in question is pyriproxyfen ... [t]he effect of pyriproxyfen on reproduction and fetal abnormalities is well studied in animals. In a variety of animal species even enormous quantities of pyriproxyfen do not cause the defects seen during the recent Zika outbreak. Pyriproxyfen is poorly absorbed by humans and rapidly broken down so even the minute amounts humans would be exposed to via water treatment would be reduced even further. As well, pyriproxyfen is relatively rapidly removed from the environment as well, so overall exposure will be low. The “Physicians in the Crop-Sprayed Villages” only evidence for the role of pyriproxyfen is that spraying began in 2014. While the evidence that Zika virus is responsible for the rise in microcephaly in Brazil is not conclusive, the role of pyriproxyfen is simply not plausible.

6 posted on 08/04/2016 12:48:16 PM PDT by HangnJudge (Cthulhu for President, why vote for a lesser Evil)
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To: George from New England

Another article was tying it into gm modified mosquitos we released awhile ago.


7 posted on 08/04/2016 12:50:37 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: artichokegrower

Zika or the insecticide they spray on marijuana plants


8 posted on 08/04/2016 12:58:17 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: butlerweave

Two more expensive anchor babies.


9 posted on 08/04/2016 1:16:31 PM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: artichokegrower

Probably illegals.


10 posted on 08/04/2016 1:17:47 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: artichokegrower

2004....avian flu
2008....influenza
2012....ebola
2016....zika

If only the US would stop holding Presidential elections....


11 posted on 08/04/2016 1:25:31 PM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician, any politician, just say, "Remember Ceaucescu"))
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To: artichokegrower

A prodominant number of the zika babies with microcephaly are not just from Brasil, but from Salvador area of Brasil. Were talking most of the cases. So what went on there?

Just something to consider:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4395143/


12 posted on 08/04/2016 1:39:16 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: Roccus

>
2004....avian flu
2008....influenza
2012....ebola
2016....zika

If only the US would stop holding Presidential elections....
>

If only the US would stop electing open border, globalist, Socialist sympathizers.


13 posted on 08/04/2016 2:19:22 PM PDT by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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To: artichokegrower

Yup anchor babies


14 posted on 08/04/2016 3:00:10 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
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