Posted on 04/11/2016 9:47:05 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe
Scientists in Brazil have uncovered a new brain disorder associated with Zika infections in adults: an autoimmune syndrome called acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, or ADEM, that attacks the brain and spinal cord.
Zika has already been linked with the autoimmune disorder Guillain-Barre syndrome, which attacks peripheral nerves outside the brain and spinal cord, causing temporary paralysis that can in some cases require patients to rely on respirators for breathing.
The new discovery now shows Zika may provoke an immune attack on the central nervous system as well.
The findings add to the growing list of neurological damage ...
(Excerpt) Read more at ca.news.yahoo.com ...
More Zika ping...
Is Zika a man made malady or has it always been around?
Repent, for the end is at hand.
Anyone have a line on Olympic Event Tickets? LOL
I’m thinking they’ll have a Buy One, get a Thousand Free Sale.
This is what happens when pseudo science and faux environmentalism dictate public health policies. DDT, the most effective agent ever to kill mosquitoes which are the vector of this virus, was banned despite the fact that there was no hard science to justify the action. Vapid gossip rising to the level of consensus leads to misery.
a brain disorder? Are we talking about liberals here?
Rachel Carson should be classified as one of the greatest genocidal lunatics in history. How many people have died because of her deranged tome ?
Rachel Carson was the biggest mass murderer of the twentieth century.
I would have beat you, except I had to check spelling of her last name.
Great minds and all that jazz.
[ Rachel Carson was the biggest mass murderer of the twentieth century. ]
She may very well have her “Silent Spring”.......
It’s full tilt boogie Zika hype.
No man knows his time.
“No man knows his time.”
The poster didn’t say there was a watch on the arm. All he can see is the hand
Thanks for the ping. Linked an article to you on the other thread.
It might be a real problem, and if so, not dealing with it could have nasty consequences.
Eliminating the vector would go along way toward containing the disease, but that would be effective, relatively inexpensive, and not politically correct, so Government would never consider it.
Besides, if Zika is eliminated, and the myelin sheath injuries, brain damage, and microcephally continue, that would indicate another factor that someone might not want to be in the spotlight.
Paying attention will reveal the facts or fallacies. In the meantime, don't feed the skeeters, FRiend.
This smells like Zika is the crisis to promote the mandatory mosquito-bite vaccine. “Here, if you get this shot, you will never be bitten by a mosquito again”-— kind of like Round-Up for the human population, a Monsanto response to bugs on plants. Some evil genius in Big Pharma has found you can destroy bugs by changing the plant genes and now we can alter the human population’s genes with a vaccine that makes us “immune” to mosquito-borne viruses. It will have to be mandatory, see, because of the SERIES public health problems if we don’t and it will have the side-effect of population control because ZIka “lives in the testicles.” Stop the world, I want to get off, Jesus come quickly.
First of all, there are no "man made maladies" in the realm of pathogenic microorganisms.
The pattern of Zika suggests that it is a zoonotic disease--that is, an animal disease that has crossed into humans. This happens because humans move into habitats previously occupied only by animals, and the humans become exposed to diseases circulating among the animals in that habitat.
Unfortunately, since a known animal reservoir of zika is mosquitoes, it is a lot more prone to spread than a disease that only spreads via direct contact. If someone visits a country where there is Zika and comes home before symptoms develop, then gets a mosquito bite when virus is in the blood, that mosquito will get sick. Then, because the virus enters the mosquito saliva, at some point that mosquito will be contagious and spread Zika whenever it bites someone. In that way, it is easy for Zika to spread into areas distant from its original territory.
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