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Zika Virus Officially Causes Rare Microcephaly Birth Defects, CDC Says (cnn.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday the Zika virus causes microcephaly and other birth defects. "This study marks a turning point in the Zika outbreak. It is now clear that the virus causes microcephaly," CDC director, Dr. Tom Frieden said. The CDC previously said it was likely the virus in pregnant women was the cause of the rare birth defect that results in an underdeveloped brain and that more evidence and research were needed to conclusively say it is causal. "We started using criteria about a month ago to see which ones had been met and which ones had not been met. We wanted to do this in a systematic and calculated way," said Dr. Sonja Rasmussen, lead author of the New England Journal of Medicine special report. There's was also no alternative explanation to account for the increase in these congenital defects among women who had the Zika virus during pregnancy. The CDC says they are not yet ready to conclude the virus causes Guillain-Barre syndrome. The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported more than 1,000 cases of microcephaly and other fetal malformations believed to be associated with the Zika virus from six countries.
Is there a homemade recipe for DDT? Sorry birdies, people come first.
At the beginning it was all very fuzzy and cases very uncharacteristic for viruses of the same family, but the research that has been done in the last few months is admirable, it is now completely clear that, even if it was unexpected, Zika acts like its mild fever type of related virus in adults (like Dengue and Yellow Fever) but becomes much more like the neurocentric cousins of the family in embryos (like West Nile and Japanese Encephalitis). Anybody that is following the reports, even if only the titles, was expecting this conclusion from the CDC and WHO.
screw that, & the obviously out of control 'weather' adverts too.... cease fire.. hand in hand we stand
an amino unbalance arising from the zombie gmo banana factories? yuk..
And one of the victims posts on slashdot!
It's not a turning point, as they a) pretty much knew this cased the problem and b) still can't do anything about it. A turning point is when they come up with a vaccine. Good thing the CDC director thinks in 140 character headlines.
...is whether a woman who has contracted Zika and subsequently recovered continues to be at risk of having a child with microcephaly?
Does the virus get completely eliminated by the immune system in time, or is someone infected for life and can never have kids without the microcephaly risk?
So how is this worse than Ebola?
We need to put screen doors in the wall on the southern border to keep the mosquitoes out.
And make Aedes aegypti pay for it.
You are welcome on my lawn.
You would think we'd at LEAST get some actual biological Zombies out of this. . .
I have an office in Singapore and I do spend part of my time in South East Asia
Zika is no stranger to South East Asia - and in fact, when Zika was first discovered in Uganda in the 1970's, a 'discovery' followed, testing human blood from other tropical regions all around the world and it was found that (back in the 1970's) that human blood collected in the South East Asian region already showed signs of Zika immunity
True, in the South East Asian region (from the Philippines to Thailand, from Indonesia to Vietnam), there were babies born with signs of microcephaly born from time to time - but because there were no 'sudden increase' of the number of babies born with microcephaly, there was no concerted effort looking for the microcephalic babies
In other words, the thousands of babies born with microcephaly in South American countries could largely be caused by the lack of natural immunity to the Zika virus of the people living there
Perhaps 100 or 200 years from now the number of 'Zike Babies' would drop, as more and more people acquired the immunity of the Zika virus via natural means
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
Hey guys! You need to watch out for SARS, H1N1, H151, mad cow, swine flu, Ebola, Zika, etc! It's really dangerous.
When there is a real dangerous pandemic the idiots who cry wolf at the WHO and media will cause the untold deaths of millions.
I just bought Monsanto stock for this very reason. People hates agribusiness, as reflected in the current price of MON, but when something like Zika hits people look to it to provide the solution. Control Zika and profit! Everybody wins!
Yeah I wish, but then I wouldn't be able to pay the rent because I'd be out of a job.
I really hate the parents more than the kids though. Calling me or my assistant late in the night to ask stupid shit ("what's the homework?" My response, check the fucking message you get every day or ask your kid why he didn't write it down when I explained it for five minutes in class, or "my kid can't read" my response, maybe if that little fucker brought his book and paid attention rather than goffing off all class he'd be able to read). And then some ask me to pay more attention to their little brat in class or stay late to tutor him (no, I don't play favorites, and pay me tutor rates if you want that shit) All sorts of stupid shit. I signed up to teach kids and instead I can barely teach because of all the bullshit (and don't get me started on administrative tasks, pointless grading of homework that students don't even look at, weekly meetings to discuss things and never come to a conclusion anyway, or the conclusion is we just have to do what we're told to do, etc.) Fuck it all.
This does make me wonder if the CDC and the FDA will review the ban on DDT. Some of the original research causing its ban has been called into question, and it remains used very effectively to control malaria in many parts of the world.
Abortion is the only smart choicefor a woman who finds she's pregnant and positive for Zika at the same time.
i wonder why Columbia, the second biggest hotbed of Zika has no increase in birth defects.
http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1/2016/04/zika-in-colombia-week-13.html
Tin Foil Hat Trigger:
also i still don't like that the area where Zika is prevalent in Brazil was putting pesticides (pyroproxifen) in the drinking water.
https://mauihawaiitheworld.wordpress.com/2016/03/22/zika-virus-controversy-is-it-a-scam/
Parents issues:
Calling you at night? Unforgivable, especially since the information is available in a message they receive.
Complain about kids reading ability? Recommend the parent read nightly with their kids. Mine have no issues since I started that.
Tutor kids for free? Many schools offer some sort of after school tutoring, if not point them to a private tutor, or just recommend Kahn accademy.
Your issues
Pointless homework grading? Stop assigning pointless homework.
Admin tasks? Come up with a system and hammer it out. Admin tasks have to be handled.
Weekly pointless meetings? stop going.
Release those GMO mosquitos that eliminate the species spreading Zika
Good. The fewer children in the world the better.
Children (especially this generation) are selfish entitled brats, just absolutely disgusting creatures. Fuck your special snowflake.
(I'm a teacher by the way. Maybe I less hate kids than I hate the way they are raised by their parents. But regardless, had a long day and need to blow off some steam.)
Where you live, maybe. Don't tar all of humanity with the same brush.
And as thats probably the USA guess what? They grow up to be selfish entitled brats. Your adults behave like gigantic toddlers.
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
If you believe:
1. the unborn are human and alive and deserving of rights
2. disabled people also have rights; we should not kill them
then obviously no, even if you are smart.
Some people feel a duty to care for the disabled. Some people even love their disabled children.
There are lots of things that are "smart" if you don't care about others.
Don't forget Monkey Pox., Remember Monkey Pox?
Nobody seems to have thought about this, but doesn't this new version of Zika mean the eventual extinction of all wild primate populations?