[heartwood]

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.

[piasa]

Nothing a little DDT wouldn’t prevent...

[stubernx98]

Oh oh, more Liberals....

[gleeaikin]

So it is not just bees that are in danger.

[rmlew]

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.

[cardinal4]

Amazing. It took only three paragraphs to connect a virus to climate change..

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Borders ARE important!

[bgill]

hussein is giggling with thoughts of illegals bringing it here soon.

More testing is needed. Uh huh, see my tagline.

[soycd]

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.

[Lil Flower]

Even though I didn’t believe it when I read it, do you suppose this is why ICE is rounding up Central Americans and sending them back?

[daniel1212]

After blasphemous gay pride parade, Brazil seeks to ban ‘Christophobia’ https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/after-blasphemous-gay-pride-parade-brazil-seeks-to-ban-christophobia

[daniel1212]

"Microcephaly" means "smallheadedness" (New Latin microcephalia, from Ancient Greek μικρός "small" and κεφαλή "head"[10]). "Microencephaly" means "small brain". Because the size of the brain is mostly determined by the size of the head, microencephaly is implied when discussing microcephaly.

Affected newborns generally have striking neurological defects and seizures. Severely impaired intellectual development is common, but disturbances in motor functions may not appear until later in life.[citation needed]

Infants with microcephaly are born with either a normal or reduced head size. Subsequently, the head fails to grow, while the face continues to develop at a normal rate, producing a child with a small head and a receding forehead, and a loose, often wrinkled scalp. As the child grows older, the smallness of the skull becomes more obvious, although the entire body also is often underweight and dwarfed. Development of motor functions and speech may be delayed. Hyperactivity and intellectual disability are common occurrences, although the degree of each varies. Convulsions may also occur. Motor ability varies, ranging from clumsiness in some to spastic quadriplegia in others

After the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, several women close to ground zero who had been pregnant at the time gave birth to children with microcephaly.[12] Microcephaly prevalence was seven of a group of 11 pregnant women at 11–17 weeks of gestation who survived the blast at less than 1.2 km from ground zero. Due to their proximity to the bomb, the pregnant women's in utero children received a biologically significant radiation dose that was relatively high due to the massive neutron output of the lower explosive-yielding Little Boy.[13] Microcephaly is the only proven malformation, or congenital abnormality, found in the children of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.[13]

People with microcephaly were sometimes sold to freak shows in North America and Europe in the 19th and early 20th centuries, where they were known by the name "pinheads". Many of them were presented as different species (e.g., "monkey man") and described as being the missing link.[14]

Generally, no specific cure is known for microcephaly. Treatment is symptomatic and supportive. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcephaly