Dont worry they are going to set up Zika Carcels on all the borders and Jail all zika mosketos. What A genious idea only in the Dominican republic could they do that. But then again all the judges are in human jail so who would condem them they need a Zika judge OUICK !
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How a Medical Mystery in Brazil Led Doctors to Zika
How a Medical Mystery in Brazil Led Doctors to Zika
A sudden, sharp increase in babies with ?no foreheads and very
strange heads? was baffling doctors in Brazil. That set off a search
for answers that led to a little-known pathogen, the Zika virus.
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., SIMON ROMERO and SABRINA TAVERNISEFEB. 6, 2016
Something strange was happening last August in the maternity wards of Recife, a seaside city perched on Brazil?s easternmost tip, where the country juts into the Atlantic.
?Doctors, pediatricians, neurologists, they started finding this thing we never had seen,? said Dr. Celina M. Turchi, an infectious diseases researcher at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, a prominent scientific institute in Brazil.
?Children with normal faces up to the eyebrows, and then you have no foreheads and very strange heads,? she recalled, referring to the condition known as microcephaly. ?The doctors were saying, ?Well, I saw four today,? and, ?Oh that?s strange, because I saw two.??
Aside from their alarming appearance, many of the babies seemed healthy.
?They cried,? Dr. Turchi said. ?They breast-fed well. They just didn?t seem to be ill.?
Doctors were stumped.
They did not know it then, but they were seeing the first swell of a horrifying wave. A little-known pathogen ? the Zika virus, carried by mosquitoes ? had been circulating in Brazil for at least a year. It would later become the chief suspect in the hunt to work out what had happened to those newborns.
Since then, those tiny babies have led the World Health Organization to declare a public health emergency. They have prompted warnings to pregnant women to avoid countries where the virus is circulating, even to refrain from unprotected sex with men who have visited those countries, following a report of sexual transmission of the virus in Dallas last week.
They have led health ministers of five countries to say something so unthinkable that none had ever uttered it before: Women, please delay having children.
The virus now threatens the economies of fragile nations and the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. It has opened a new front in the debate in heavily Roman Catholic countries about a woman?s right to birth control and abortion.
And the children stricken with microcephaly, or abnormally small heads, have doctors everywhere asking: What is this virus? How could it have been around for almost 70 years without us realizing its power? What do we tell our patients about a bug that can hide in a mosquito?s proboscis and a man?s semen, even in human saliva or urine? What do we tell young women who ask if their unborn babies are safe?
How a Medical Mystery in Brazil Led Doctors to Zika
A sudden, sharp increase in babies with ?no foreheads and very
strange heads? was baffling doctors in Brazil. That set off a search
for answers that led to a little-known pathogen, the Zika virus.
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., SIMON ROMERO and SABRINA TAVERNISEFEB. 6, 2016
Something strange was happening last August in the maternity wards of Recife, a seaside city perched on Brazil?s easternmost tip, where the country juts into the Atlantic.
?Doctors, pediatricians, neurologists, they started finding this thing we never had seen,? said Dr. Celina M. Turchi, an infectious diseases researcher at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, a prominent scientific institute in Brazil.
?Children with normal faces up to the eyebrows, and then you have no foreheads and very strange heads,? she recalled, referring to the condition known as microcephaly. ?The doctors were saying, ?Well, I saw four today,? and, ?Oh that?s strange, because I saw two.??
Aside from their alarming appearance, many of the babies seemed healthy.
?They cried,? Dr. Turchi said. ?They breast-fed well. They just didn?t seem to be ill.?
Doctors were stumped.
They did not know it then, but they were seeing the first swell of a horrifying wave. A little-known pathogen ? the Zika virus, carried by mosquitoes ? had been circulating in Brazil for at least a year. It would later become the chief suspect in the hunt to work out what had happened to those newborns.
Since then, those tiny babies have led the World Health Organization to declare a public health emergency. They have prompted warnings to pregnant women to avoid countries where the virus is circulating, even to refrain from unprotected sex with men who have visited those countries, following a report of sexual transmission of the virus in Dallas last week.
They have led health ministers of five countries to say something so unthinkable that none had ever uttered it before: Women, please delay having children.
The virus now threatens the economies of fragile nations and the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. It has opened a new front in the debate in heavily Roman Catholic countries about a woman?s right to birth control and abortion.
And the children stricken with microcephaly, or abnormally small heads, have doctors everywhere asking: What is this virus? How could it have been around for almost 70 years without us realizing its power? What do we tell our patients about a bug that can hide in a mosquito?s proboscis and a man?s semen, even in human saliva or urine? What do we tell young women who ask if their unborn babies are safe?
“This epidemic is an unfolding story,” said Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. “As with Ebola, this virus is something that could exist for years under the radar, and we don’t know until we get thousands of cases what it really does.”
“With Zika, we’re seeing new twists and turns every week.”
To doctors in Recife, whatever was striking the babies seemed to have fallen like a bolt from the blue.
In reality, it had been building for months. It had even been frequently discussed among clinicians — but no one had realized what was on the horizon.
Seeing the Same Symptoms
A year earlier, doctors say, the first patients had started trickling into public hospitals in Natal, capital of the state of Rio Grande do Norte, about 200 miles up the coast from Recife.
It was a few weeks after the 2014 World Cup, and Natal had been one of the host cities of the soccer championship, which draws fans from all over the world.
Many patients lived on the city’s margins, others in settlements dotted across the sert?o, northeast Brazil’s arid hinterland.
Almost all had the same symptoms: a flat pinkish rash, bloodshot eyes, fever, joint pain and headaches. None were desperately ill, but the similarities were striking.
“That scared some patients and doctors, and my team,” said Aline Bezerra, a nurse and the municipal epidemiologist. “We knew nothing other than that it might be some kind of light dengue.”
Tests ruled that out, along with other common viruses, but the patients kept coming. One day in January 2015, 100 showed up at the state’s hospitals.
“We alerted the federal authorities that we were dealing with something urgent and new,” said Dr. Kleber Luz, an infectious diseases specialist at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. “But their reaction was sluggish.”
By last March, the spread of a “doen?a misteriosa” — the mystery disease — had become impossible to ignore. It appeared in two more states nearby. Then it reached Salvador, a city of 2.5 million.
Doctors speculated that it was an allergy; that it was roseola, a childhood illness; that it was a new variant of Fifth Disease, a facial rash that gives children a “slapped-cheek” look.
“People were claiming it was polluted water,” said Dr. G?bio Soares, a virologist at the Federal University of Bahia in Salvador. “I began thinking it was something transmitted by mosquitoes.”
Working in his modest lab with a colleague, Dr. Silvia Sardi, Dr. Soares kept testing blood samples.
Other doctors were doing the same. Over 6,800 samples were tested, according to news reports, from victims ranging from 4 months to 98 years old. Parvovirus, dengue, chikungunya and other suspects were all ruled out.
Finally, in April, Dr. Soares and Dr. Sardi were sure: It was Zika.
“I actually felt a sense of relief,” Dr. Soares said. “The literature said it was much less aggressive than viruses we already deal with in Brazil.”
“With Zika, we’re seeing new twists and turns every week.”
To doctors in Recife, whatever was striking the babies seemed to have fallen like a bolt from the blue.
In reality, it had been building for months. It had even been frequently discussed among clinicians — but no one had realized what was on the horizon.
Seeing the Same Symptoms
A year earlier, doctors say, the first patients had started trickling into public hospitals in Natal, capital of the state of Rio Grande do Norte, about 200 miles up the coast from Recife.
It was a few weeks after the 2014 World Cup, and Natal had been one of the host cities of the soccer championship, which draws fans from all over the world.
Many patients lived on the city’s margins, others in settlements dotted across the sert?o, northeast Brazil’s arid hinterland.
Almost all had the same symptoms: a flat pinkish rash, bloodshot eyes, fever, joint pain and headaches. None were desperately ill, but the similarities were striking.
“That scared some patients and doctors, and my team,” said Aline Bezerra, a nurse and the municipal epidemiologist. “We knew nothing other than that it might be some kind of light dengue.”
Tests ruled that out, along with other common viruses, but the patients kept coming. One day in January 2015, 100 showed up at the state’s hospitals.
“We alerted the federal authorities that we were dealing with something urgent and new,” said Dr. Kleber Luz, an infectious diseases specialist at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. “But their reaction was sluggish.”
By last March, the spread of a “doen?a misteriosa” — the mystery disease — had become impossible to ignore. It appeared in two more states nearby. Then it reached Salvador, a city of 2.5 million.
Doctors speculated that it was an allergy; that it was roseola, a childhood illness; that it was a new variant of Fifth Disease, a facial rash that gives children a “slapped-cheek” look.
“People were claiming it was polluted water,” said Dr. G?bio Soares, a virologist at the Federal University of Bahia in Salvador. “I began thinking it was something transmitted by mosquitoes.”
Working in his modest lab with a colleague, Dr. Silvia Sardi, Dr. Soares kept testing blood samples.
Other doctors were doing the same. Over 6,800 samples were tested, according to news reports, from victims ranging from 4 months to 98 years old. Parvovirus, dengue, chikungunya and other suspects were all ruled out.
Finally, in April, Dr. Soares and Dr. Sardi were sure: It was Zika.
“I actually felt a sense of relief,” Dr. Soares said. “The literature said it was much less aggressive than viruses we already deal with in Brazil.”
it's an interesting subject. from what i read people who were tested for this in african regions where it first started had antibodies and the older ones immunity. which according to the scientists suggested that the virus was widespread for a long time. maybe so many people had it so early that by the time the women reached breeding age they had immunity to the disease? kinda like rubella when early infection gives immunity and the disease itself is not a problem for sick kids yet big problem for sick pregnant women.
"I am sad that so many babies are being born with microcephaly, but they are the cutest little babies I've ever seen... My hope is that support can come to those families whose babies are affected," Mrs Hartley said when asked about the cases in Brazil.
http://www.straitstimes.com/world/u...-a-story-of-two-sisters-the-hartley-hooligans
Don't know what to think of this lady who has 2 daughters with microcephaly, she says they're the cutest little babies she has ever seen. Maybe because they look like cabbage patch kids?
Hope they take care of this virus real quick
http://www.straitstimes.com/world/u...-a-story-of-two-sisters-the-hartley-hooligans
Don't know what to think of this lady who has 2 daughters with microcephaly, she says they're the cutest little babies she has ever seen. Maybe because they look like cabbage patch kids?
Hope they take care of this virus real quick
How a Medical Mystery in Brazil Led Doctors to Zika
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/07/h...0160207&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=42303622&_r=0
With vectors of transmission both by mosquito and through sexual contact, it is unlikely this virus will be eradicated any time soon.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/07/h...0160207&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=42303622&_r=0
With vectors of transmission both by mosquito and through sexual contact, it is unlikely this virus will be eradicated any time soon.
In case you wish to know where ZIKA came from and what evil minds cfreated it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e3TaLoAaSM
Zika Virus Was Patented in 1947 by Rockefeller Foundation
Just some minor facts in regards to a long pattented VUIRUS.
Zika Virus Was Patented in 1947 by Rockefeller Foundation
Just some minor facts in regards to a long pattented VUIRUS.
Hardly facts. Just another conspiracy theorist.
I now have to return to my chem-trail analysis.
Hardly facts. Just another conspiracy theorist.
I now have to return to my chem-trail analysis.
Conspiracy fact. Another Tuskegee experiment gone awry.
because the virus can be detected in bodily fluids? in concentration high enough to cause infection?
I believe that in the original case the person who was infected (in the USA) had no exposure to mosquitoes due to the season and the only possible method of transmission was the sex partner (unprotected) who had recently returned from Brazil, unknowingly infected.
so, the minister of tourism says zika will not affect DR while the president of tour operators organisation says there are already many cancellations: http://www.listindiario.com/economia/2016/02/09/407099/ministro-dice-zika-no-afectara-turismo-de-rd
The fish idea might reduce the mosquito population but I've seen in some reports that the type that is responsible for zika can propagate in rain filled bottle caps and those little plastic cups that are so popular for espresso. So I doubt they would work very well to reduce zika. Maybe with other diseases caused by other types of mosquitoes.
Over 1,000 cases of Dengue at one Santiago hospital last year( Diario Libre)
Who's worried about "ZIKA"????????????
I THINK i HAD SEX WITH HER ONCE!!!
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...rocephaly-brazilian-babies-who-died/80179898/
WASHINGTON ? The Centers for Disease Control has identified the Zika virus in the tissue of two babies who died in Brazil from microcephaly ? the strongest link yet between the virus and the birth defect that has stricken developing fetuses, the CDC director told a House panel Wednesday.
"This is the strongest evidence to date that Zika is the cause of microcephaly,? CDC Director Tom Frieden told members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. He added that the findings did not prove that the virus causes the birth defect and that more tests are needed before the link can be proven definitively.
"Zika is new, and new diseases can be scary, particularly when they can affect the most vulnerable among us," Frieden said.
The CDC is warning pregnant women to protect their babies by avoiding travel to South America, Central America and Caribbean countries such as Puerto Rico, where the virus is spreading fast. Women who are already in those countries should take precautions to protect themselves from mosquitoes, which are the main way that the disease is transmitted, Frieden said.
"Our goal really is to protect pregnant women," he said. "That's our main priority right now."
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Two babies and the CDC considers that a strong link? Sure, spend a few billion dollars.
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