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The Zika Virus
« on: January 29, 2016, 09:54:46 pm »
A thread for news related developments centered around the Zika Virus.
Something tells me the story is just beginning..

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Zika virus (ZIKV) is a member of the Flaviviridae virus family and the Flavivirus genus, transmitted by daytime-active Aedes mosquitoes, such as A. aegypti.

In humans, it initially causes a mild illness known as Zika fever, Zika, or Zika disease, which since the 1950s has been known to occur within a narrow equatorial belt from Africa to Asia. In 2014, the virus spread eastward across the Pacific Ocean to French Polynesia, then to Easter Island and in 2015 to Central America, the Caribbean, and South America, where the Zika outbreak has reached pandemic levels.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zika_virus

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Zika virus outbreak in the Americas (2015–present)

As of early 2016, the most widespread outbreak of Zika virus in history is ongoing in the Americas. The outbreak began in April 2015 in Brazil, and subsequently spread to other countries in South America, Central America, and the Caribbean.

In January 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) said that the virus was likely to spread throughout the majority of the Americas by the end of the year.[23] The virus is spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which is commonly found throughout the Americas.

In around one in five cases, infection with Zika virus results in a minor illness known as Zika fever, which causes symptoms such as fever and a rash. However, Zika virus infection in pregnant women has been linked with thousands of cases of newborn microcephaly by mother-to-child transmission. A number of countries have issued travel warnings, and the virus was detected in cases in the U.S.,[24] Denmark,[25] as well as six in Portugal.[26]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zika_virus_outbreak_in_the_Americas_(2015%E2%80%93present)



I wonder who's been buying this shit:
http://www.lgcstandards-atcc.org/products/all/VR-84.aspx?geo_country=fr#generalinformation


Who's been selling it:
http://www.lgcstandards-atcc.org/products/all/VR-84.aspx?geo_country=fr#history

Remembering Dr Peter David Beter and his warning from 1976:
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Topic #2 - On October 5, 1976, just as the so-called “SWINE FLU” inoculation program was getting under way, news reports suddenly told us that we were experiencing fallout from an alleged Chinese atmospheric nuclear blast on September 26. Oddly enough, the initial reports about this came from the East Coast, especially Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and Connecticut; but certain areas of the Pacific Northwest were soon mentioned as being affected too. We were told that radioactive iodine-131 was showing up in milk at various locations; but we were also assured, as we invariably are whenever any radioactive hazard appears, that there was really no danger.

In the days that followed we continued to hear about the supposed Chinese fallout, but other things probably seemed even more worrisome. For example, elderly people began dying of heart attacks shortly after taking swine flu shots, causing widespread alarm at first. But the Government quickly assured us that their deaths didn’t really matter at all, that they would have died anyway; and the swine flu inoculation program went right back into high gear.

And then there were the strange outbreaks of an unknown “mystery illness” at electronics plants in western Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Oregon. The employees, most of them women, experienced headaches, nausea, stomach pains, difficulty in breathing, a feeling of being intoxicated in some cases, and even fainting spells. This time the swine flu vaccine could not be the culprit because the victims had not received it. Instead, some were worried that the swine flu itself had struck. Others remembered, with a shiver, the equally mysterious “[COLOR="orange"]Legionnaires Disease[/COLOR]” that had sickened nearly 200 people in Philadelphia and killed more than two dozen of them two months earlier.

My friends, there is actually no mystery at all behind these developments and more like them that you can expect to see. All of these cases I have mentioned are man-made and deliberate, but those who are responsible for them are neither telling you about them nor leaving clues that will be found in normal medical investigations of these episodes. We in the United States are now under attack in a campaign of experimental testing of chemical warfare weapons so that they can be employed later on with precision and devastating effect against us in full scale war—that is, if we let it happen.

For years all the major countries of the world have been in a continuing race against time to discover ever more sophisticated forms of bacterial and chemical weapons, some of them amounting to doomsday weapons capable of destroying all life on this planet. Only mad men would even consider using such weapons, but only mad men deliberately cause wars for their own greedy purposes, too—and war is very near at hand right now. A few years ago a nerve gas called sarin was perfected in a facility in Colorado. A tiny amount escaped, and two shepherds and their 7000 sheep were killed. In response to the public outcry that resulted, a statement was issued that the Chemical Warfare Service had destroyed the sarin gas and was no longer doing such research—but that was a lie. Experimentation still continues today on all kinds of such poisons, and at a furious pace.

As of right now, many hideous lethal ailments can be inflicted on whole populations as operational weapons. These include black plague, smallpox, meningitis, dysentery, gangrene, yellow fever, tetanus, botulism, typhus, hepatitis, Bang’s disease, and Q fever. Thirty grams of Q fever is sufficient to infect over 150-million people, and it is considered especially convenient since any individuals who are to be saved in such an attack can first be immunized against it! Such selective immunization could easily be done, for example, under the cover of a mass inoculation program like the swine flu program. Q fever, though, is mild by comparison to a nuclear gas called AP-7 which is being manufactured in Uruguay and Argentina by American and European subsidiaries of Rockefeller-controlled conglomerate corporations. Two thimblefuls properly distributed could kill 180-million people; and one pound, all life on the face of the earth. Unless and until these hideous weapons are unleashed on the earth, they remain in a condition in which they can be destroyed and neutralized; and it is essential that they be destroyed instead of just being handed around from one agency to another, as Senator Frank Church permitted last year in his shellfish toxin shell game. But other types of chemical and biological weapons are also of great interest to weapons researchers which can be used in more selective ways or to produce lower-order effects than the poisons I have just described.

The Soviet KGB, which works hand in hand with the Rockefeller-controlled CIA, now has access to whole families of such chemical weapons which can be adjusted in exact dosage and formula to produce a variety of effects on victims. These were and are intended for use as part of the program to eliminate effective opposition by the people of the United States to the planned Rockefeller dictatorship here in America and our conversion into the most valuable of all slave nations for the Soviet Union.

Before these new weapons can be used with confidence though, they must be tested, and that testing is going on now. As a cover for the periodic episodes of strange illnesses that will occur here and there around the United States while this testing
is going on, the trumped-up swine flu threat was developed. On March 24, 1976, President Ford announced his proposal for the unprecedented nation-wide inoculation program supposedly to fend off the strange swine flu virus.To this very day not a single case of swine flu has been confirmed anywhere in the United States since President Ford’s announcement. Last February in monthly AUDIO LETTER No. 9 I revealed that the Government had panicked because of my disclosure that the Fort Knox Bullion Depository contained leaking canisters of deadly plutonium super poison, and in January 1976 dumped part of the poison into underground streams beneath Fort Knox. Later when the swine flu charade was announced, I was able to tell you of the Government’s plan to use this device to cover up the real cause when and if the poison from Fort Knox began surfacing at various points in the southeastern United States and causing sickness and death.
 
But it wasn’t until July of this year 1976 that I received information about the rest of the swine flu story, and at that time the far more imminent threat of the Soviet missile crisis involving a Soviet double-cross of the four Rockefeller Brothers had to take precedence. The reason that the Government concluded last January 1976 that they could get away with dumping the plutonium poison from Fort Knox into underground streams, which would surely carry the poison elsewhere, was that the swine flu campaign had already been planned for another purpose. That purpose was to serve as a cover to explain the effects that would be caused when chemical warfare experimentation began, as planned, in July 1976 in our country. So when I revealed the presence of the leaking plutonium super poison in the Central Core Vault of the Fort Knox Bullion Depository, they concluded that they could just dump some of it underground and cover up that, too, with the swine flu swindle.

In late July 1976 the joint KGB-CIA chemical warfare experimentation program began in Philadelphia at the American Legion Convention. A convenient test group was assembled, and it was exploited. Data was desired for the effects of a formulation of the new family of poisons on older men in particular, and the American Legion Convention was chosen as the perfect target. Aerosol spray cans containing poisoned room freshener were used to selectively saturate the atmosphere of the Legionnaires. Afterwards the special spray cans were taken from the hotel, leaving the city by airplane from a small airport on the northwest side of Philadelphia. Two of the active ingredients in the poison that produced the Legionnaires Disease were plutonium and zirconium.

The next experiment occurred late in August 1976 about a month after the Legionnaire episode, and had quite a different purpose; and so a different poison formula was used. Plutonium was again an ingredient, as it is in the entire line of chemical warfare agents now being tested; but this time the formula was designed for very rapid effect with the victims receiving a massive dose. On a day late in August two Air Force C-141 Starlifter transport aircraft that were preparing to leave McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey on flights over the Atlantic were sabotaged by the placement in their cockpits of concealed canisters of poison gas, rigged so that the gas would be released in flights without being detected. The two planes left McGuire at nearly the same time, and crashed within hours of one another when approaching separate destinations in Greenland and England. The very next day, with the wreckage of the aircraft hardly cooled, a Pentagon spokesman said, quote:
“Sabotage does not appear to be a factor. It’s not even being considered as a factor.”
Officials also said there was no apparent connection between the crashes. Apparently leaving the same Air Base at practically the same time and then crashing almost simultaneously without warning is not supposed to suggest the possibility of anything but coincidence. No doubt it is also coincidence that McGuire Air Force Base, the origin of these two strange fatal flights, is right next door to Fort Dix where the whole swine flu cover-up scare originated!

The successful experimental sabotage of the two C-141s provided valuable data to the Soviets, since it gave them some measure of the operational reliability of the formula used for that purpose. Now, when they are ready to wage war, they have another weapon tested and proven—the placement of canisters of poison gas in the cockpits of numerous Allied aircraft to make a shambles of our air power just when we need it most. Next came the mystery disease in the electronics factories. This time more data on women was wanted, especially since the Legionnaires Disease did not kill many women. The ideal target would be some assembly plants containing a high proportion of female employees. To avoid too strong a public uproar, sublethal doses were used; but again a key active ingredient was plutonium, and many of the classic symptoms of radiation sickness were produced.

Finally in early October, this month, the first chemical warfare experiment was performed against the entire population of the United States. On October 3, while the huge fleet of Soviet submarines I told you about last month were still deployed at precise intervals very close to our shores, the submarines released a very fine dispersion of plutonium into the atmosphere along the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts of the United States. Unlike normal fallout produced by nuclear weapons, the invisible clouds of plutonium from the Soviet submarines were released at relatively low altitudes. The theory was that the plutonium clouds released in this way would diffuse inward over land from all of our shorelines and ultimately settle mainly on North America with very little of it reaching high enough altitudes to be swept around the globe to the Soviet Union. But, my friends, this time they miscalculated and the nation-wide plutonium cloud experiment backfired.

Here is what happened: The early progress of the plutonium cloud was just as planned. The invisible clouds of plutonium diffused inward onto the East Coast and onto the Gulf Coast, and along the West Coast moved inland much more rapidly due to the assistance of prevailing westerly winds. By October 5 the expanding plutonium cloud had penetrated a hundred miles or so inland from the East and Gulf coasts and as far as the Rockies, where it entered from the Pacific Northwest. That was the day that the cover story about Chinese nuclear fallout suddenly appeared, pinpointing areas along the East coast and Pacific Northwest as being most heavily affected so far. Thus in case the Soviet plutonium cloud turned out to have unexpectedly strong effects, Red China had already been identified as the scapegoat.

Over the next two days, the plutonium cloud gradually grew together over the midwestern United States, forming finally a
continuous blanket over practically all of our land area. At the same time, the plutonium cloud had also been expanding outward as well as inward from our coastlines, and by October 8 large areas of Canada and Mexico were also affected. Prevailing winds were also tending to move the expanding plutonium cloud eastward out over the Atlantic; and at this point things began departing from Soviet calculations.

In recent days there has been an extremely unusual shift in the position of the high altitude jet stream to a position much further south than normal. The jet stream has a lot to do with our weather; and in the case of the Soviet experimental plutonium cloud, it did enough by causing the plutonium cloud released by the Soviet subs to drift away from the United States sooner than expected and to settle all over the Soviet Union itself—definitely not according to plan. As of now, it has largely dissipated and does not continue to be a threat. The main problem that is left is that practically everyone in the United States plus much of Mexico, Canada, the British Isles, and Europe have suffered some exposure to this plutonium, though fortunately it was at a relatively low experimental level this time.

The best protective measure against radioactivity is, of course, to avoid it; and that is exactly what Nelson Rockefeller did, forewarned about the plutonium cloud to be released by the Soviet subs. When the plutonium drifted inward from our shores, Nelson and Happy Rockefeller just happened to be elsewhere, in London. After all, Nelson wants to stay as healthy as possible so that he can relish his planned elevation to the position he has craved for decades—President of the United States and of the World.
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/audioletters/audioletters_17.htm
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Re: The Zika Virus
« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2016, 09:30:53 am »
The disease resulting from the infection with the Zika virus is not a real problem, as it disappears by itself in 3 to 7 days, this has been getting more and more on the news because some people are linking the disease in pregnant women to a rise in microcephaly cases, but the connection has not been confirmed, the only thing confirmed is that there are more microcephaly cases than usual and that in several of those cases an infection by the Zika virus was confirmed.

That possible connection was first noticed in Brazil, where a sharp rise in the microcephaly cases in Pernambuco was reported on October 22 to the national health authority, being reported internationally (on October 23). At the time one possible connection between the microcephaly cases and the virus was considered likely, as some congenital malformations of the central nervous system are known to be triggered by infections during pregnancy.

On a study published on November 24 by the Centre for Disease Control of the European Union (available here) it was reported that on the French Polynesia (the area affected just before the South American outbreak) there were signs of connection between the Zika virus and some of those microcephaly cases, as in four cases of the suspect 17 microcephaly cases the mother had the antibodies for the virus.

The virus present in Brazil is the Asian type (there are two types, the original African and the Asian). One of the problems of identifying the Zika virus as the source of the microcephaly is that the same mosquitoes that spread it also spread dengue and chikungunya virus. The Zika virus is also a possible source for Guillain–Barré syndrome cases.

Most of the above information comes from this PDF (in Portuguese) from the Brazilian Ministry of Health.

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Re: The Zika Virus
« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2016, 09:41:21 am »
The disease resulting from the infection with the Zika virus is not a real problem, as it disappears by itself in 3 to 7 days, this has been getting more and more on the news because some people are linking the disease in pregnant women to a rise in microcephaly cases, but the connection has not been confirmed, the only thing confirmed is that there are more microcephaly cases than usual and that in several of those cases an infection by the Zika virus was confirmed.

That possible connection was first noticed in Brazil, where a sharp rise in the microcephaly cases in Pernambuco was reported on October 22 to the national health authority, being reported internationally (on October 23). At the time one possible connection between the microcephaly cases and the virus was considered likely, as some congenital malformations of the central nervous system are known to be triggered by infections during pregnancy.

On a study published on November 24 by the Centre for Disease Control of the European Union (available here) it was reported that on the French Polynesia (the area affected just before the South American outbreak) there were signs of connection between the Zika virus and some of those microcephaly cases, as in four cases of the suspect 17 microcephaly cases the mother had the antibodies for the virus.

The virus present in Brazil is the Asian type (there are two types, the original African and the Asian). One of the problems of identifying the Zika virus as the source of the microcephaly is that the same mosquitoes that spread it also spread dengue and chikungunya virus. The Zika virus is also a possible source for Guillain–Barré syndrome cases.

Most of the above information comes from this PDF (in Portuguese) from the Brazilian Ministry of Health.

do you find it disturbing that they let loose genetically modified mosquitos into the environment ?

that they consider wiping out mosquitos

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35408835

wipe out a species?

wipe out a element of the food chain ??

smacks of desperation and delusions of grandeur to me :D

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Re: The Zika Virus
« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2016, 11:15:47 am »
do you find it disturbing that they let loose genetically modified mosquitos into the environment ?
No, that's a relatively common way of trying to control insects, as you can see here.

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that they consider wiping out mosquitos
I doubt they can wipe them out, as that is hard to do on a large area, most successful cases happened on controlled areas, and I don't think that even wiping out some species of mosquitoes would have a large ecological impact, as there are thousands of other insects that have the same role in their ecosystems.

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« Reply #4 on: January 30, 2016, 12:32:45 pm »
No, that's a relatively common way of trying to control insects, as you can see here.
I doubt they can wipe them out, as that is hard to do on a large area, most successful cases happened on controlled areas, and I don't think that even wiping out some species of mosquitoes would have a large ecological impact, as there are thousands of other insects that have the same role in their ecosystems.

it would have a massive environmental impact just via population increase alone, =

the birds and other insects might be a bit pissed you killed  their dinner  too :D

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Re: The Zika Virus
« Reply #5 on: January 30, 2016, 12:58:55 pm »
Support your local bat colonies.  They are mosquito predators.  If bat colonies had better support, the use of pesticides could be decreased.  Oops. That would spell trouble for global chemical producers and big pharma. 

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Re: The Zika Virus
« Reply #6 on: January 30, 2016, 02:01:04 pm »
One thing about this particular mosquito is in its name, aedes aegypti, as this is an African species that was introduced in Asia and South America by humans. If the ecosystem adapted to include them it will adapt if they disappear.

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Re: The Zika Virus
« Reply #7 on: February 02, 2016, 04:03:14 pm »
Zika virus infection 'through sex' reported in US

A rare case of the Zika virus being transmitted through sex, not a mosquito bite, has been reported in the US.

A patient infected in Dallas, Texas, is likely to have been infected by sexual contact, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) told the BBC.

The person had not travelled to infected areas but their partner had returned from Venezuela.

Zika is carried by mosquitoes and has been linked to thousands of babies being born with underdeveloped brains.

It is spreading through the Americas and the World Health Organization has declared the virus a global public health emergency..

This case in Dallas would be the first known infection to take place in the mainland US, though Texas has seen seven other Zika cases all related to foreign travel.

Anne Schuchat, principal deputy director for CDC, said this was the first case it had dealt with involving a "non-traveller".

"We don't believe this was spread through mosquito bites, but we do believe it was spread through a sexual contact."

A statement issued by the CDC said the best way to avoid Zika virus infection was "to prevent mosquito bites AND to avoid exposure to semen from someone who has been exposed to Zika".

The case is "significant" if it was definitely transmitted through sexual contact, Alaka Basu, a senior fellow for public health at the UN Foundation, told the BBC.

"This significance is parallel with the HIV/Aids case. It's worse in some ways, because there are two modes of transmission."

It is not the first known case of sexual transmission. There was a case in 2013 in French Polynesia, according to the CDC website.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-35478778?ocid=socialflow_facebook&ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbcnews&ns_source=facebook
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Re: The Zika Virus
« Reply #8 on: February 02, 2016, 04:15:10 pm »


holy crap,  Sinny.. I was just reading that..


Dallas County reports first U.S. case of Zika virus transmission
Reuters
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AUSTIN, Texas, Feb 2 (Reuters) - The first reported case of the Zika virus contracted in the United States has been found in Dallas County, local health officials said on Tuesday, adding that there were no reports of the virus being transmitted by mosquitoes in the Texas county.


Dallas County Health and Human Services said the case in Dallas was acquired through sexual transmission, adding that it received confirmation of the infection from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The person infected did not travel and acquired the virus from someone who had been to Venezuela, the county health department said on its twitter feed. It did not provide further information on the Texas infection due to privacy concerns.

The CDC said it did not investigate how the virus was transmitted.

There have been eight cases of Zika in Texas, seven of which occurred through foreign travel, the Texas Department of State Health Services said. Six of the eight cases have been in the Houston area and two in the Dallas area, it said.

In medical literature, there has been only one case of Zika transmitted sexually and one case in which the virus was detected in semen. (Reporting by Jon Herskovitz; Editing by Jonathan Oatis)

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Re: The Zika Virus
« Reply #9 on: February 14, 2016, 06:14:06 pm »
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Re: The Zika Virus
« Reply #10 on: April 14, 2016, 06:14:39 am »
So the BBC are reporting that  "US health experts confirm that Zika causes birth defects"
13 April 2016


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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed that the Zika virus causes severe birth defects, including microcephaly.

Research has now affirmed those experts' suspicions, the CDC said.

"This study marks a turning point in the Zika outbreak. It is now clear that the virus causes microcephaly," said Dr Tom Frieden, the head of the CDC.

On Monday, US health officials warned the Zika outbreak could have more of an effect on the United States and called for additional funding to combat the virus.

"Everything we know about this virus seems to be scarier than we initially thought," said Dr Anne Schuchat of the CDC.

Zika virus was first diagnosed in 1947 in Uganda, but symptoms have typically been mild, including rash, joint pain and fever.

The current outbreak started in 2015 in Brazil and the symptoms have been much more severe. Nearly 200 babies have died as result of the virus.

Researchers are interesting learning why some cases of the virus result in birth defects while others do not.
Some women who were infected with Zika while pregnant gave birth to apparently healthy children.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-36040881


ONCE AGAIN... There' no link to that ducking report.. So I'm trying to hunt it down.. The BBC seem to be  getting their reports from CNN.. So lets have a look at what info CNN have..

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Zika virus 'scarier than initially thought'
By Debra Goldschmidt, CNN
April 12, 2016


(CNN)"Everything we look at with this (Zika) virus seems to be a little scarier than we initially thought," Dr. Anne Schuchat, CDC principal deputy director, told reporters during a White House briefing on Monday.

She was joined by Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease at the NIH. "The more and more we learn, the more you get concerned about the scope of what this virus is doing," he said.
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/04/11/health/zika-virus-scarier-than-first-thought/

Follow that blue hyperlink (I highlighted) and we get taken to... A CNN report from Febuary 2nd stating:

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The conditions have not yet been conclusively linked to the virus.
"The experts agreed that a causal relationship between Zika infection during pregnancy and microcephaly is strongly suspected, though not yet scientifically proven," Dr. Margaret Chan, the WHO director-general said.
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/02/01/health/zika-virus-public-health-emergency/index.html

Hmm, well the Mainstream media are having us go round in circles.. Time for me to visit the CDC & WHO to see if they have the damning information.

Oh wait, NY Times says:


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By PAM BELLUCK and DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. APRIL 13, 2016

Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday that there was now enough evidence to definitively say that the Zika virus could cause unusually small heads and brain damage in infants born to infected mothers.  ::)

The conclusion should settle months of debate about the connection between the infection and these birth defects, called microcephaly, as well as other neurological abnormalities, the officials said.

“There is no longer any doubt that Zika causes microcephaly,” said Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, the C.D.C. director. He said the conclusion, reached after evaluating “mounting evidence from many studies,” signifies “an unprecedented association” in medicine.

“Never before in history has there been a situation where a bite from a mosquito can result in a devastating malformation,” Dr. Frieden said.

He and other agency officials said they hoped that the announcement increased awareness and concern about the potential threat to Americans who travel to affected areas in Latin America and those living in Puerto Rico, American Samoa and Southern states where the virus is expected to arrive this summer.

The announcement may increase pressure on Congress to allocate more than $1.8 billion in emergency funding that President Obama requested for prevention and treatment of the outbreak. While C.D.C. officials did not address funding, Dr. Sonja A. Rasmussen, the agency’s director of public health information and dissemination, said the conclusion “emphasizes the importance of working on ways to prevent Zika infection,” including efforts to develop a vaccine.

“Surveys have told us that a lot of people aren’t concerned about Zika virus infection in the United States — they don’t know a lot about it,” Dr. Rasmussen said.

Now that we can be more convincing that Zika virus does cause microcephaly, we hope that people will focus on our prevention messages more closely.” (Sinny: what an odd choice of words... Lying bastards)

The C.D.C. analysis, led by Dr. Rasmussen, was published Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine, and involved weeks of research into findings that have emerged from Brazil and elsewhere, including studies of fetuses with microcephaly in pregnant women infected with Zika.

The authors said they used established frameworks for assessing whether evidence met scientific criteria proving that one factor causes another. Those criteria included the existence of cases of microcephaly that have been strongly linked to documented exposure to Zika virus. Dr. Rasmussen and her colleagues also reviewed the biologically plausible explanations for how the virus might cause damage to the brain, and the absence of other explanations that make sense. (Absence of other explanations!!!!! HARK)

Infectious disease experts welcomed the announcement.

“The important part is that the C.D.C. can now take action without having to spend time trying to confirm the link,” said Dr. Eric J. Rubin, an infectious disease expert at Harvard and an editor at The New England Journal of Medicine.

Michael T. Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, said the C.D.C.’s announcement was a “good call,” adding “I give them credit for making clear and unambiguous statements about the neurologic complications.”
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsr1604338?query=featured_home&


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New England Journal of Medicine

Sonja A. Rasmussen, M.D., Denise J. Jamieson, M.D., M.P.H., Margaret A. Honein, Ph.D., M.P.H., and Lyle R. Petersen, M.D., M.P.H.
April 13, 2016

To determine whether Zika virus infection during pregnancy causes these adverse outcomes, we evaluated available data using criteria that have been proposed for the assessment of potential teratogens. On the basis of this review, we conclude that a causal relationship exists between prenatal Zika virus infection and microcephaly and other serious brain anomalies.....

....data that strongly support biologic plausibility...

...POTENTIAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION AND BIRTH DEFECTS....

...However, communications regarding Zika virus have been challenging: a recent survey showed low levels of knowledge and concern about Zika virus in the United States.8 The recognition of Zika virus as a cause of microcephaly and other serious brain anomalies would allow for more direct communication, which might lead to improved understanding of and adherence to public health recommendations....

...As is typically the case in epidemiology and medicine, no “smoking gun” (a single definitive piece of evidence that confirms Zika virus as a cause of congenital defects) should have been anticipated. Instead, the determination of a causal relationship would be expected to emerge from various lines of evidence, each of which suggests, but does not on its own prove, that prenatal Zika virus infection can cause adverse outcomes....

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsr1604338?query=featured_home&

My Verdict: They say microcephaly is caused by ZIKA because its convenient to say so.
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Re: The Zika Virus
« Reply #11 on: April 14, 2016, 10:22:34 am »
Support your local bat colonies.  They are mosquito predators.  If bat colonies had better support, the use of pesticides could be decreased.  Oops. That would spell trouble for global chemical producers and big pharma. 

Shasta

Right as bats are being wiped out by white nose syndrome.
An Eastern Us desease now found in NW
Northwest bat diagnosed with white-nose syndrome; disease has killed 6 million

http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2016/03/northwest_bad_discovered_with.html

Sounds like a chess game someone releases a disease someone else counters that move and makes another, maybe spraying does take place in the skies when something has been released.
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Re: The Zika Virus
« Reply #12 on: May 21, 2016, 08:12:07 am »
Zika virus detected in Cabo Verde appears to be the same from Brazil.

20 MAY 2016 | BRAZZAVILLE - Sequencing of the virus in Cabo Verde by Institut Pasteur, Dakar confirms that the Zika virus currently circulating in Cabo Verde is the same as the one circulating in the Americas - the Asian type- and was most likely imported from Brazil. This is the first time that the Zika strain responsible for the outbreaks linked to neurological disorders and microcephaly has been detected in Africa.

“The findings are of concern because it is further proof that the outbreak is spreading beyond South America and is on the doorstep of Africa. This information will help African countries to re-evaluate their level of risk and adapt and increase their levels of preparedness,” said Dr Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa.

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2016/zika-cabo-verde/en/

I wouldn't be surprised if we get it in Europe soon, as many people from Cabo Verde live in Portugal and France. One of my co-workers is from Cabo Verde and has just gone there on vacation.

 


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