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To: artichokegrower

Suppress the patient info so no one can find the water treatment cause ...
It was on FR in the past days the tie in to water treatment as in pesticide where the birth defects occured.


3 posted on 08/04/2016 12:38:28 PM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
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To: George from New England
I hate to quote Snopes, but they had a good take in the issue of pesticides being responsible for the microcephaly cases

http://www.snopes.com/zika-microcephaly-outbreak-pesticide/

...The origin of the pesticide theory was, surprise surprise, a small physicians’ group that campaigns against pesticides. The group hasn’t done any epidemiology to demonstrate that people exposed to the pesticide are more likely to have babies with microcephaly; it has simply laid out an argument. The mainstream groups, looking at this problem holistically, have said there’s much better evidence that mosquitoes are hurting people than the evidence (and there’s no evidence, really) that the stuff killing mosquitoes is hurting people.

...This claim is not plausible. The pesticide in question is pyriproxyfen ... [t]he effect of pyriproxyfen on reproduction and fetal abnormalities is well studied in animals. In a variety of animal species even enormous quantities of pyriproxyfen do not cause the defects seen during the recent Zika outbreak. Pyriproxyfen is poorly absorbed by humans and rapidly broken down so even the minute amounts humans would be exposed to via water treatment would be reduced even further. As well, pyriproxyfen is relatively rapidly removed from the environment as well, so overall exposure will be low. The “Physicians in the Crop-Sprayed Villages” only evidence for the role of pyriproxyfen is that spraying began in 2014. While the evidence that Zika virus is responsible for the rise in microcephaly in Brazil is not conclusive, the role of pyriproxyfen is simply not plausible.

6 posted on 08/04/2016 12:48:16 PM PDT by HangnJudge (Cthulhu for President, why vote for a lesser Evil)
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To: George from New England

Another article was tying it into gm modified mosquitos we released awhile ago.


7 posted on 08/04/2016 12:50:37 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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