Thanks for posting
She does a good job pointing out the lack of evidence that Zika infection is causing any birth defect.
But she then starts doing the same sort of thing against the chemical, implying it is the cause without any real evidence.
She’s kind of loony tunes with the antivax and anti-corporate lunacy.
She kind of discredits herself which is too bad because the point she makes about zero evidence for Zika causing microcephaly or any birth defects is a good point.
Interesting information. Have a family member is south Miami that is pregnant. Everyone is trying to get her to come up here (PA) till she delivers.
A good general article by Attkisson on the Zika virus dated july/29/2016.
However, some of that information has been updated , and was factual as of that time.
More information about Zika transmission and it's side effects are being developed, almost daily.
17. Doctors say there’s no “smoking gun” that links Zika to microcephaly, but that all the evidence taken together indicates there’s an association.
An association alone means nothing. The mosquito larvicide was used to control the mosquitoes that, incidentally, happen to cause Zika, and the putative increase of microcephaly cases also occurred at the same time.
I would be investigating the larvicide and consider that a more likely suspect, because Zika has been known for decades and never associated with microcephaly. On the other hand, that particular larvicide has only been used for the last couple of years. That would account for the new observation of microcephaly cases (if, in fact, there is a common cause for them--which has not been established).