Posted on 01/25/2016 10:01:03 PM PST by BenLurkin
The Zika virus is likely to spread across nearly all of the Americas, the World Health Organization has warned.
The infection, which causes symptoms including mild fever, conjunctivitis and headache, has already been found in 21 countries in the Caribbean, North and South America.
It has been linked to thousands of babies being born with underdeveloped brains and some countries have advised women not to get pregnant.
No treatment or vaccine is available.
The virus was first detected in 1947 in monkeys in Africa. There have since been small, short-lived outbreaks in people on the continent, parts of Asia and in the Pacific Islands.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Sorry, we already have it here in epidemic proportions.
It's just been called something else for decades.
LIBERALISM
This is a highly contagious and dastardly disease! They have human to human transmission in Brazil. They will host the Olympics this summer.
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I hope you got a good laugh out of that.
Very few other people find humor on Zika threads.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/01/16/health/what-is-zika-virus.html?_r=0
And how will it spread here? By migrating Monarch butterflies I wonder?
Close. Mosquitos.
Thinking the same thing.
They never talk about this when speaking of letting in the unwashed hoards.
I give up, who?
Just what we need. Anchor babies with undeveloped brains.
Seems like Antibiotics are also at the end of their usefulness too.
The world will be an interesting pestilence-infestation soon.
Antibiotics
http://www.raptureready.com/soap2/ward43.html
That’s horrible. I’m glad the wife and I are out of the fertile years. I pray for my kid’s, though.
Use DDT!!!
Always monkeys in Africa.
I read more about it several days ago and saw pictures of babies infected. I did not see anything the least bit amusing. In fact, I cried.
Have you read about Zika and have you seen the pictures?
I’ve been reading the threads/articles posted here. Horrible stuff.
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