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.
Please fix title (Florida)
It would seem like that we need to discuss the use of DDT. Or is that still forbidden to bring up?
How many are illigals?
Hey, how about that ebola panic?!
Hey, how about that H1N1 panic?!
Hey, how about this?!
I hear you, but this strikes at the heart - in many ways, worth than the threat of death.
Worldwide, there were only 10,000 thalidomide babies born and it’s still haunting.
This is worse. More difficult to control.
Telling couples to abstain from sex for 6 months if the husband gets sick - recommending that women hold off on having babies. That’s heavy stuff.
Nobody is all right with ‘playing the odds’ when their child’s life is in the balance.
Agreed. I would be scared if I were of child-bearing age.
My daughter is trying now and is keeping her eye on the mosquito threat. Unfortunately, we do have them here.
There will be zero first world pregnancies negatively affected by Zika. The problems in the third world had many causes, notably dengue, chikungunya and other viruses and possibly plasmid infections but also (in NE Brazil) chemicals and inbreeding. There were no first world cases that I read about.
You might want to ask the two nurses from North Texas that contracted Ebola from their patient about Ebola. I highly doubt they would make light of it.
The birth defects from Zika are horrifying when they occur. I am inclined to agree with another poster about discussing the judicious use of DDT. I love bald eagles, but how about ‘Save The Humans’ for once?
Either way, I'm sure that among the gays it will cause little worry, after all, this is a disease that affects ‘normals’ anyway, so what does it matter if there's an infected partner and they catch it.
Ahh, yes, and Pride month was June, with gays traveling the country to spread their ‘love.’
I'll go out on a limb and predict explosive growth in reports, spreading well across the country in the coming couple of months. Come September, I bet it'll even be part of presidential politics and questions at the debate to trip people up.
Shrunken heads for the taxpayer. Thank you Mr. President!
The birth defects from Zika are horrifying when they occur. I am inclined to agree with another poster about discussing the judicious use of DDT. I love bald eagles, but how about ‘Save The Humans’ for once?
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Is DDT actually harmful to anything other than insects?
Zika will change the human genome.
Like EV-D68 and incurable TB brought in by Obama
and Ryan and Boehner, this will be a rough ride
of death, paralysis, and massive human retardation.
Where did the pregnancies occur ?
What nationality are the mothers ?
Are they immigrants ... legal and / or illegal ?
And yup .... black or white ?
You CAN'T discuss a CDC subject without peripheral data ... not if you want to get paid for your effort.
None of these cases were contracted from mosquitoes.
More likely from sex with partners who WERE infected by mosquitoes in another country and then brought it here with them (read, "migrants").
Rather than DDT it's just another reason to STOP ALL IMMIGRATION into this country for a while.
AMERICA is down to the last curses before it is completely destroyed. PRAY, and stand for righteousness.
DEUTERONOMY 28:15-68
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+28%3A15-68&version=NLT
Zika is NOT in the USA. All those cases that are breathlessly reported as if we are all gonna die are from elsewhere and the sick people come to or back to the USA with zika. It is not transmissable from person to person. We won’t have an American zika problem until the relevant mosquitos are imported. There is surely someone in the government working on that as we discuss it.
It is better that hundreds of millions die than that we indicate that the lefties got it wrong. The left cannot in any case at all be deemed wrong.
Hell yes to DDT!
And I am not making light of it, I am pointing out the Alynski portrayal of every stinking turd world pestulence that this regieme imports. Can’t let babies being born without a brain go to waste!
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