[ridesthemiles]

Question: Who is going to take care of these virus damaged infants/teenagers/adults when their parents are gone?

How deep & how long will this threat be in the USA???

IS this disease a man-made disease that has just recently been allowed to spread? What is the infection rate in South America & Central America???

[Domestic Church]

The parents could be basket cases themselves - this bug triggers dementia in some adults.

[grania]

quick research....Zika first isolated in 1947 in a Rhesus monkey in Uganda's Zika forest. It has been detected on a regular basis, but not at the epidemic level, until now.

The lowering of IQs in so many people is intriguing. I'd love to find a philosophical discussion of how many points the IQ can be lowered in an advanced civilization with causing its decline or fall. Has there every been a self-sustaining advanced civilization where the population didn't have above average intellectual, analytical skills?