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Dr. John T. Brooks, an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention studying sexual transmission of the Zika virus, said he was “not particularly surprised” to see transmission that was probably by oral sex.

Transmission through kissing is unlikely, Dr. Brooks said.

“Casual kissing has got to be safe because, if it weren’t, don’t you think we’d see a lot more Zika? Every mom who kissed her baby would pass it on,” he said. “To be sure, we’d have to look for deep kissing in the absence of sexual contact, and that’s hard to find.” (more information available at the source)

We have so much more to learn about the Zika virus and its method of transmission.

1 posted on 06/03/2016 6:28:56 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Is ZIKA the new AIDS virus?


2 posted on 06/03/2016 6:32:55 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt; dfwgator

LAUNCELOT: We were in the nick of time, you were in great peril.
GALAHAD: Look, I'm a knight, I'm supposed to get as much peril as I can.
GALAHAD: Well, let me have just a little bit of peril?
LAUNCELOT: No, it's unhealthy.
3 posted on 06/03/2016 6:33:31 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!)
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4 posted on 06/03/2016 6:33:44 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...

Infectious Disease Ping


6 posted on 06/03/2016 6:40:26 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt ( British historian Arnold Toynbee - Civilisations die from suicide, not by murder.)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Transmitted from BJs? So, if Obama became infected with Zika, think of the exposure to MSM journalists.


7 posted on 06/03/2016 6:42:02 AM PDT by Right Brother
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Another inconvenience that globalist free trader open border types say we JUST have to put up with...


8 posted on 06/03/2016 6:43:08 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

I find this hard to swallow...


9 posted on 06/03/2016 6:43:25 AM PDT by null and void (Progressives replaced doublethink, doublespeak with nothink, nospeak. Orwell wasn't up to the task)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

This should be interesting, considering half (at least) of the Olympics athletes are sodomites of one ilk or another.


10 posted on 06/03/2016 6:44:18 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

But how does one grab ahold of a tiny mosquito dick?


11 posted on 06/03/2016 6:53:00 AM PDT by MNnice
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How long does Zika remain in the system?
Is it chronic and subject to unpredictable flare-ups, like herpes?
If so, given its predilection for fetal neuronal tissue, it might lead to a slew of microcephalic babies down the road...


12 posted on 06/03/2016 6:53:44 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Well, THAT blows.


13 posted on 06/03/2016 7:04:21 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Of Course it is.
A mosquito ‘french’ kisses you. :^)


14 posted on 06/03/2016 7:09:25 AM PDT by Vinnie
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt
Another "Angel's Bowl Full of Plague" to go, coming right up.

Yep, it's just another day at the drive-thru window of life here in these no longer interesting times.

16 posted on 06/03/2016 7:15:05 AM PDT by GBA (Here in the matrix, life is but a dream.)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Keep it “Zika’d or suffer the consequences. Hear that Bill?


20 posted on 06/03/2016 7:48:37 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Well, at least now I know I can’t get it from my wife.


24 posted on 06/03/2016 8:25:33 AM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

The joys of being infected by the third world... /s


25 posted on 06/03/2016 8:39:14 AM PDT by GOPJ (When Hillarys Foundation gets a million only $30K goes to charity. Where's the effing press outrage?)
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So a little head can cause a little head?


26 posted on 06/03/2016 9:02:47 AM PDT by paddles ("The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." Tacitus)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

The real price of “Open Borders” is the collapse of the American public health system.

Mass lethal diseases brought in with uncontrolled/monitored immigrants are the ticking time bombs set to destroy lives and local/state/federal budgets in the next 8-years.


28 posted on 06/03/2016 9:43:47 AM PDT by Dark Wing (terrorism, disease, public health)
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