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New discovery means more U.S. states will face a risk from Zika
The Washington Post ^ | April 29 at 10:37 AM | Nick Miroff

Posted on 04/30/2016 7:27:26 AM PDT by null and void

This Aedes Aegypti mosquito photographed on human skin in a lab of the International Training and Medical Research Training Center (CIDEIM) on Jan. 25 in Cali, Colombia. (Luis Robayo/AFP/Getty Images) By Nick Miroff April 29 at 10:37 AM

For the first time in the Western Hemisphere, researchers have detected the Zika virus in Aedes albopictus, the mosquito species known as the “Asian tiger,” a finding that increases the number of U.S. states potentially at risk for transmission of the disease.

During the summer months when U.S. mosquito populations are at their peak, albopictus are more ubiquitous than the Aedes aegypti that have been the primary vector of the spread of Zika elsewhere in the Americas. Unlike the aegypti mosquito, which is mostly present in southern United States and along the Gulf Coast, the albopictus has a range as far north as New England and the lower Great Lakes.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: ddt; fearporn; zikavirus
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1 posted on 04/30/2016 7:27:26 AM PDT by null and void
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To: null and void
Bring back DDT. Seriously.


2 posted on 04/30/2016 7:29:35 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: neverdem; ProtectOurFreedom; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; Global2010; ...
Bring Out Your Dead

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...

3 posted on 04/30/2016 7:30:50 AM PDT by null and void ("when authority began inspiring contempt, it had stopped being authority" ~ H. Beam Piper)
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To: null and void

WHO looking for ways to quell the herd


4 posted on 04/30/2016 7:32:12 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: central_va

We used to ride our bikes in that fog and watch the little [insert common term for illegitimate children here] drop dead around us.

In Laurel Bay it wasn’t a city truck, but a fogger trailer towed by a USMC or Navy jeep.


5 posted on 04/30/2016 7:34:49 AM PDT by null and void ("when authority began inspiring contempt, it had stopped being authority" ~ H. Beam Piper)
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To: null and void

Gates and the bio-engineers are manipulating mosquitos and have engineered the Zika virus exactly how they did “Lyme” disease and the HIV virus and the ‘vaccines” in countries to produce cancer and sterility, and “swine flu since they plan to kill billions on this planet (like George Bernard Shaw stated and the Fabian Socialists and Malthusians have admitted numerous times in print).

The super-elite sodomites with their control of CIA have controlled the “research” centers since Prescott Bush laundered millions of Nazi dollars and brought Nazi scientists over here after WWII to manage our “psychology” department and university “research” centers, to make insanity “normal” and “normal” insane. (For the NWO and “happy slavery” of Fichte/Wundt/Pavlov).

They want a Solzhenitsyn-type system-—where the insane/psychopaths like obama and clintons, run the world and can put all the Sane into gulags-—so the Sane can be killed and locked up and totally controlled. The insane will be the useful idiots-—mobs that keep the world in chaos so unity and overthrow is impossible and “happy” as long as they can pee wherever and sodomize the little boys like the CIA run Boy-Sex rings of Sandusky and Franklin Cover-Up (white house) allow for satanic rituals..


6 posted on 04/30/2016 7:41:03 AM PDT by savagesusie (When Law ceases to be Just, it ceases to be Law. (Thomas A./Founders/John Marshall)/Nuremberg)
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To: central_va

Agreed.


7 posted on 04/30/2016 7:41:35 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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To: central_va

Anyone looked at the possibility of bioterrorism?


8 posted on 04/30/2016 7:46:35 AM PDT by Shady (We are at war again......this time for our lives...)
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To: central_va
Anyone who believes that a virus carried by a mosquito will not become ubiquitous in short order is simply fooling themselves, especially with environmentalist who would gladly sacrifice humanity rather than use chemical control methods.
9 posted on 04/30/2016 7:47:19 AM PDT by iontheball
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To: null and void

Well, Ebola was a fail, so let’s see how Zika fares in the lower 48.

If that doesn’t produce the desired results,...


10 posted on 04/30/2016 7:53:10 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: central_va

Agreed! It was the best until that assclown Rachel Carlson wrote that book called Silent Spring! Nothing but lies.


11 posted on 04/30/2016 7:55:15 AM PDT by Busko (The only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain.)
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To: central_va

I used to run behind that kind of truck while living on the Animas River in Farmington NM back in 1956! Maybe that is why I am this way today!

Then we also used to spray ourselves down with DDT bug killer back in 1969 SE Asia to keep the mosquitos away.

Bring back DDT!


12 posted on 04/30/2016 7:57:33 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: iontheball

There is no real link to prove the Zika virus and microcephaly. There was only Zika virus found in 17 cases in Brazil which is likely in the normal range there and doesn’t prove causality.
I don’t get why everyone always eats this stuff up so readily. Fake disease - induce fear and billions of dollars change hands. I get the news and TV shows including this stuff and the idea that world health organizations and all these government NGO lobbying groups and politicians are beyond reproach as benevolent caring do gooders always looking out to aid the needy minorities and masses in general.


13 posted on 04/30/2016 8:15:22 AM PDT by Sheapdog (Chew the meat, spit out the bones - FUBO - Come and get me)
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New discovery means more U.S. states will face a risk from Zika

Then why the hell didn't they just leave it undiscovered? Fools!

14 posted on 04/30/2016 8:27:59 AM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: null and void

Some scientists are genetically modifying a male mosquito that makes the Aedes aegypti females unable to produce viable larvae — the larva hatch too early, killing the species off.

We live in interesting times. We can introduce a population of mosquito that will exterminate itself — no chemical warfare. A simple abatement procedure, releasing males that reduce the local population group by 80%.


15 posted on 04/30/2016 8:36:29 AM PDT by Syncopated
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To: Syncopated

Yup. And the GMO-freakazoids and hell bent on fighting it, even though it works. FDA has approved some small testing but the usual footdragging continues. I’d rather have a targeted solution than a chem spray that kills everything.


16 posted on 04/30/2016 9:02:42 AM PDT by SueRae (An election like no other..)
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To: null and void

I contracted Zika in 90’s Mexico. I went to the doctor to find out what the crazy weird rash I had was and he was able to tell me immediately. As I was not young or aged it was largely considered benign if the rash didn’t get out of control. It was even thought to be beneficial since it gave me immunity to Yellow and Dengue fevers which are much more lethal!

Has it become radically more lethal in the decades since then? Is it just the possibility of birth defects that is freaking people out even if they aren’t pregnant women? What elevated this to Fear Factor Five?


18 posted on 04/30/2016 2:24:02 PM PDT by SleepySimon
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To: central_va

First thing I thought of.


19 posted on 04/30/2016 8:51:54 PM PDT by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789)
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To: ronnie raygun

I believe that is cull. But we could be quelled too. ;D)


20 posted on 04/30/2016 8:54:06 PM PDT by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789)
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