Since April 3, donation centers on the island have detected 68 blood donors out of 12,777 — or about 0.5% — who had active Zika infections. The highest incidence was 1.1% of donors for the latest week of reporting, and the numbers have increased in the last month, the CDC’s Matthew Kuehnert said. The blood donor increase mirrors separate reports of pregnant women in Puerto Rico infected with Zika: 191 pregnant women have tested positive this week, way up from nine last week.
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Imagine a mosquito borne disease that could depopulate much of the earth if women must choose to not have children
One U.S. Rep in my area, a doctor, has sharply condemned any travel to South America or any country with a significant infection rate. This includes travel to Rio in Brazil for the Olympics. He says it’s insanity to even think about going (and coming back.)
>one-quarter of the island’s 3.5 million people will eventually acquire the mosquito-borne illness, U.S. CDC officials said. Current estimates are that 1% to 13% of babies born to women infected with Zika during pregnancy will suffer from microcephaly, a severe shrunken brain and skull syndrome.
If they pinch off enough retards, they will soon have a majority of retards...just like islam.
Can Paul Ryno fix this by bailing out Mitt’s bud’s Bond Investments?
Sounds like ACA will pay for it. Correction: I mean the working people of America will.
I thought shrunken heads were caused by Witch Doctors.
Too bad the CDC’s initial reaction to zika was a bunch of lies about funding & budget in an attempt to get LOTs of money from congress. I don’t trust them on zika (or other things for that matter). Is there a real problem or are they trying to get money by exaggerating.
I know there’s a real problem, but is this a case where Obama should find a way to give them more (e.g. out of green energy funds) or where Congress really needs to appropriate more. I’d bet they can find $2 billion from programs that are not as critical. Obama needs to prioritize rather than demand money for anything he wants. The girls can skip their upcoming vacation and save a few million if this is really critical.
This is tragic.
What lab did this emerge from?
Anyone visiting Puerto Rico on their way to the Rio olympics?
It’s all bullshit. I live in Puerto Rico. I don’t know of anyone who has gotten this zika. I don’t know of anybody who knows anyone who has gotten this zika. There are a few other mosquito-born diseases that get spread around here frequently, and zika ain’t one of them. There have been many thousands of births on the island this year, and none with any zika-related issues.
It is all bullshit. People here are more concerned with the common mosquito-borne dengue virus than they are of zika. To us, zika is akin to the chupacabra. A legend. A rumor. A government-induced “crisis”
It’s all bullshit.
In the AP story that just came out an hour ago there was this tidbit of information:
(ap story) Puerto Rico has a total of 8,776 Zika cases, with 1,480 new cases reported this past week. There are now 901 pregnant women with Zika, which has been linked to severe birth defects.
This the first we've heard of such large numbers as far as I recall. Between 1 and 13% of children born with microcephaly? This is a civilization changing epidemic being treated like a political nuisance.
There’s a simple preventative measure.
Vitamin D3