Posted on 07/02/2016 12:37:00 AM PDT by quesney
Statewide total climbs to 246 confirmed Zika cases in Florida this year
No cases of local transmission by mosquitoes, health department says
First child born in Florida with Zika-related birth defect reported this week
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Florida health officials confirmed the largest number of new Zika infections in a single day on Friday with 10 people affected, raising the statewide total to 246 cases this year, including 43 pregnant women.
The new cases were announced on the same week that state officials reported Florida’s first baby born with a Zika-related birth defect. The baby is at least the fifth child born in the United States with microcephaly, which causes abnormally small heads and incomplete brain development, as a result of the Zika virus.
No Zika cases in Florida or elsewhere in the continental United States have been transmitted locally by mosquito bites, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. However, at least 13 people had contracted the disease as of June 29 through sexual contact, including one case in Polk County, Florida.
Pregnant women and their children are considered to be at greatest risk from the disease. Researchers have concluded that prenatal Zika infection can cause microcephaly and other brain disorders. Babies with microcephaly often have developmental problems, including intellectual disability, hearing loss, vision problems, and difficulty with movement and balance.
There is no vaccine or specific medical therapy for Zika, which causes symptoms including fever, joint pain, red eyes and rash lasting seven to 10 days, according to the CDC. Only one in five people who acquire the disease show symptoms, however.
Zika virus is primarily spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito but also can be transmitted by blood transfusions and by men to their sexual partners.
obama is a failure.
We have tons of highly relevant mosquitoes south of Lake Okechobee in FL and along the MS, LA, and TX Gulf Coast (Aedes aegypti). Zika may or may not spread efficiently via Aedes albopictus, which ranges up into Minnesota and Southern New England.
There's a lot about virus/vector adaptation we don't know, including as another poster alluded to, race of the target human. When West Nile virus was introduced into the US in 1999 in Queens, NY (Kennedy Airport), there were some cases in and around NYC. In 2000-2001, it spread to New England.
It turns out, however, that WNV's preferred biome is the high plains, and although it remains a minor problem here in New England, there are now many cases in Western KS and eastern CO.
In a nutshell, until Zika starts to colonize mosquito pools in South Florida and along the Gulf Coast, we won't really know how much of a human problem, if any, we will have.
As far as DDT? I'm surprised we aren't loading up the C-130s already, but the civil war within the WHO Public Health community (Geneva vs. the field) on this subject continues without letup. As long as environmentalists in both parties are in charge, DDT is off the table.
Does it work? Google "Zambia+Indoor residual spraying".
In this case, the legal status of the entrant is of no importance, it's where they are from.
This virus is made to order for those seeking to diminish the human population.
DDT was blamed for things it didn’t cause.
Go here: http://junkscience.com/100-things-you-should-know-about-ddt/
Betcha the mosquitoes are riding in on cruise ships. Why not, ships stop at all the Caribbean islands, Central America and South America. Then return to the Florida ports, and leave the ship without going through customs !
Good Morning Jim, interesting that you mentioned Lake Okeechobee, Belle Glade Florida (right on the Lake) has the regrettable distinction of having one of the highest rates of HIV/AIDS infection anywhere in the State, going back decades, and of COURSE it could not possibly have anything to do with the massive mosquito population, I mean, just because a pesky little insect which bites, pierces the skin, draws in blood into it’s insidious proboscis, and then bites ANOTHER victim the same way, it’s just not possible that AIDS could have been spread that way, why?
Because the government told them so. Told them it was ‘impossible’.
So all the government needs to do in this case is to announce that it is “impossible” for the ZIKA virus to be transmitted by mosquitoes, and viola!
Problem solved! ;)
Yeah, another epidemic spread by perverted and licentious people who will in turn blame in on Christians and conservatives.
Actually, the evidence against mosquito-borne HIV is pretty strong.
The age distribution of AIDS in West Africa and Haiti is an inverted parabola, high at birth, falling (due to mortality) to age 3-4, almost zero ages 5-12, starts to rise again age 12 with very high levels by ages 15-16.
Malaria (and dengue, which is a Zika cousin) rises in a linear fashion from birth to old age.
I followed the early Belle Glade story very closely, for exactly the reasons you suggest. African sexual behavior patterns, it turns out, are the whole story - in Guinea, in Haiti, in Belle Glade and now in lots of US cities.
DDT accumulates in eagles as they are apex predators. DDT is not bad. The OVERUSE of DDT is where the problems arise.
Agreed on the vile importation of third-world diseases previously eradicated in the western world. Whooping cough and XDR-TB are two ‘wonderful’ imports that spring to mind. This regime is now demanding somewhere close to $2B to ‘fight’ the spread of Zika. News flash: standard mosquito eradication procedures should work just fine. And bonus: it’s already been budgeted.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2006/07/06/bald-eagle-ddt-myth-still-flying-high.html
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologists fed large doses of DDT to captive bald eagles for 112 days and concluded that “DDT residues encountered by eagles in the environment would not adversely affect eagles or their eggs,” according to a 1966 report published in the “Transcripts of 31st North America Wildlife Conference.”
The USFWS examined every bald eagle found dead in the U.S. between 1961-1977 (266 birds) and reported no adverse effects caused by DDT or its residues.
One of the most notorious DDT “factoids” is that it thinned bird egg shells. But a 1970 study published in Pesticides Monitoring Journal reported that DDT residues in bird egg shells were not correlated with thinning. Numerous other feeding studies on caged birds indicate that DDT isn’t associated with egg shell thinning.
In the few studies claiming to implicate DDT as the cause of thinning, the birds were fed diets that were either low in calcium, included other known egg shell-thinning substances, or that contained levels of DDT far in excess of levels that would be found in the environment – and even then, the massive doses produced much less thinning than what had been found in egg shells in the wild.
So...rachel carson contributed to the deaths of 10’s of millions of humans each year but is worshipped by LIB idiots. Degenerate, nonthinking LIBs have named many schools after this murderer.
So...rachel carson contributed to the deaths of 10’s of millions of humans each year but is worshipped by LIB idiots. Degenerate, nonthinking LIBs have named many schools after this murderer.
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Yep. I once saw someone drink a glass of water with a couple of big spoonfuls of DDT mixed in. Perhaps the ruling class wanted to kill millions of Africans on purpose and make food more expensive for the little people.
I believe that information is incorrect; current information indicates that Zika can be transmitted by and excahnge of seminal body fluids
www.theledger.com/article/20160701/NEWS/160709938?tc=cr
"The virus can also be transmitted sexually through semen. The only known case of sexual transmission in Florida occurred in March, after a Polk County man traveled abroad and upon his return infected his partner who had not been out of the country..."
" If an infected person is bitten by a mosquito, that mosquito can transmit the virus to another person."
Also , approximately three and a half weeks ago in Texas, a homosexual male traveled into a Zika area,upon return, had sexual relationship with his male lover,
and the Zika virus was subsequently found in the bloodstream of the lover who had not left Texas.
Just yesterday (7/2/2016) NYTimes reported :
" Sex May Spread Zika Virus More Often Than Researchers Suspected "
www.nytimes.com/2016/07/05/health/zika-virus-sex-spread.html?_r=0
"Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, called the evidence “striking.”
Like other scientists, he had doubts about aspects of the data, but thought the results justified a more rigorous study,
probably in Puerto Rico, of the role of sex in transmitting the Zika virus.
“I can’t say it’s not true that women are more at risk,” he said.
"The Zika virus can persist for months in semen, even in men who have had very mild infections.
That’s why women who are pregnant or trying to conceive are routinely warned
not to have unprotected sex with men who have been in areas where the virus is spreading."
(Emphasis mine)
(excerpt only, more information at website)
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