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Alarm Spreads in Brazil Over a Virus and a Surge in Malformed Infants
The New York Times ^
| Ded. 30, 2015
| Simon Romero
Posted on 12/30/2015 5:14:51 PM PST by heartwood
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But other virologists caution that more testing is needed to prove the dangerous link between the virus and brain damage, leaving the full extent of the threat to the country, and the hemisphere, unclear.Might be travelers, imports, or immigrants carrying the disease. Or it could be CLIMATE CHANGE.
Tragic effects, whatever is causing it. A fifteen-fold increase in microcephaly.
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posted on
12/30/2015 5:14:51 PM PST
by
heartwood
To: heartwood
Nothing a little DDT wouldn’t prevent...
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posted on
12/30/2015 5:16:11 PM PST
by
piasa
To: heartwood
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posted on
12/30/2015 5:16:55 PM PST
by
stubernx98
(cranky, but reasonable)
To: piasa
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posted on
12/30/2015 5:17:27 PM PST
by
shadeaud
(Be strong when you are weak and stand up for our Constitution.)
To: heartwood; SunkenCiv; piasa; MarchonDC09122009; All
So it is not just bees that are in danger.
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posted on
12/30/2015 5:21:45 PM PST
by
gleeaikin
To: shadeaud
You mean the Olympic games in Rio next summer?
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posted on
12/30/2015 5:24:55 PM PST
by
FoxInSocks
("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
To: piasa
"Nothing a little DDT wouldnât prevent..." WHAT..?? DDT..!! OH MY GOD..!!! IT'S A WAR ON WOMEN.!!!
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posted on
12/30/2015 5:25:04 PM PST
by
unread
(Joe McCarthy was right.......)
To: stubernx98
Oh oh, more Liberals....
It's already here
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posted on
12/30/2015 5:27:13 PM PST
by
Iron Munro
(The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
To: heartwood
It's not just Brazil. According to the CDC, Zika Virus is in Mexico. The primary vector is the yellow fever mosquito (Aedes aegypti), which is also found in states bordering the Gulf of Mexico. Worse, Zika can be transmitted by the
Asian Tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus), which is not endemic in the Eastern United States. Unless, we do something soon, this virus will soon hit the US.
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posted on
12/30/2015 5:31:16 PM PST
by
rmlew
("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
To: Iron Munro
Oh my gosh! Funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time. Husband and I enjoyed a long, stress-relieving laugh. Great stuff.
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posted on
12/30/2015 5:36:01 PM PST
by
Optimom
To: heartwood
Amazing. It took only three paragraphs to connect a virus to climate change..
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posted on
12/30/2015 5:39:55 PM PST
by
cardinal4
(Certified Islamophobe)
To: Iron Munro
Kneel before Obama — Master of Ebola and Ruler of Zika!
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posted on
12/30/2015 5:48:45 PM PST
by
StormEye
To: cardinal4
In one sentence I can connect it to global air travel and illegal imigrants bringing it with them.
We used to turn back diseased people. No apologies or hand wringing about it either.
Those days need to return. Big time.
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posted on
12/30/2015 5:49:22 PM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: heartwood
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posted on
12/30/2015 5:50:01 PM PST
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
To: heartwood
hussein is giggling with thoughts of illegals bringing it here soon.
More testing is needed. Uh huh, see my tagline.
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posted on
12/30/2015 5:50:15 PM PST
by
bgill
(CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
To: shadeaud
Come to Rio for the Games and we’ll throw in an exotic disease for free!
To: Optimom
Oh my gosh! Funniest thing Iâve seen in a long time. Husband and I enjoyed a long, stress-relieving laugh. Great stuff.
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posted on
12/30/2015 5:58:44 PM PST
by
Iron Munro
(The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
To: heartwood
The third world has been banging for bucks for so long that pinching off new ones has become a means of survival.
Time to snip that crap in the gonads.
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posted on
12/30/2015 6:01:10 PM PST
by
soycd
To: Secret Agent Man
You can’t just turn back the sick people. You’d have to to draw blood from all the asymptomatic people and test it for dozens or hundreds of diseases, viral, bacterial, and parasitic.
Some diseases won’t be revealed by blood testing. TB, for instance. You have to test the person for an immune reaction which takes a few days. I hope any traveler from a place where TB is endemic is required to be tested before getting a visa, and the testing is not corrupt.
And then there are all the people without visas crossing our unenforced border.
To: heartwood
I agree. If we were serious about disease control we would do this. But the “leaders” are not.
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posted on
12/30/2015 6:07:07 PM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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