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To: E. Pluribus Unum
E. Pluribus Unum :" www.caribbean360.com/news/no-connection-zika-microcephaly-new-study-claims

Thank you for that reference !
Please note that reference website encourages tourism in the Carribbean area, so the information might be biased .
However, it does include science and statistics from New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Here is the money quote from the article :
"NECSI has consequently urged experts to reassess the microcephaly cases in Brazil
for the possibility that a pesticide used to kill mosquitoes could be responsible for the birth defects in the nation."
NECSI has consequently urged experts to reassess the microcephaly cases in Brazil for the possibility that a pesticide used to kill mosquitoes could be responsible for the birth defects in the nation.
NECSI emphasized the importance of reevaluating the Zika cases in Brazil since the pesticide pyriproxyfen is known to cause microcephaly as it cross-reacts with retinoic acid.
Pyriproxyfen is commonly placed in drinking water in some parts of the country to kill mosquito larvae carrying the Zika virus."

This would explain the microcephaly in Brazil
but not the Zika microcephaly elsewhere in the Caribbean Islands .
Or is that a statistical aberration ?

14 posted on 07/26/2016 9:46:52 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

Maybe the Caribbean tourist institute is biased, but so are “research” institutions that grub for government grant money.


15 posted on 07/26/2016 11:23:01 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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