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WHO: Zika No Longer a World Health Emergency (usatoday.com)
The mosquito-borne Zika virus that causes microcephaly and other birth defects is no longer a world health emergency, according to the World Health Organization. It is a virus that requires a long-term approach. USA Today reports: By downgrading the emergency status for Zika, the organization will now shift to a longer-term approach for fighting the virus that has spread across Latin America, the Caribbean and beyond. Zika was also found in parts of the Miami area. The virus "is not going away," WHO said on Twitter. "Countries need to be prepared and strengthen detection and prevention, as well as care and support for people." Nearly 30 countries have reported birth defects linked to the virus. WHO, which designated the health emergency in February, says more than 2,100 cases of nervous-system malformations have been reported in Brazil alone. The virus continues to spread geographically to areas where Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are established, the organization noted. Most people who are infected by the virus do not get sick, but can suffer fever, rash and joint pain. The virus, however, can cause birth defects, including microcephaly, in which infants are born with abnormally small heads and incomplete brain development.
Who says?
Now that Trump was elected.
Zika no longer "emergency" now "common cause of lifetime disability".
If someone is infected by Zika and returns to health, can that person still infect others? Nothing I've read about Zika answers that.
Zika already mutated to become an STD but it could easily mutate to become more infectious and be less noticeable by the host. My fear is that it will become even more prevalent as HPV but will go completely unnoticed until several women in the next generation start having children with defects. This scenario would be devastating for all mankind.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Did they ever find out if there was any validity to the claim that Zika has been around for a long time but only recently is being accused of causing birth defects when in reality it's some pesticide or something?
and more afraid of numskulls who don't understand science and disaster response and will take this to mean Zika was never a threat. A lot of stuff about the coming US Presidential Administration scares me but the thought of Trump putting cronies in charge of this sort of thing instead of experts is pants shittingly terrifying...
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Zika does not nor ever did cause microcephaly and other birth defects. That was a lie to cover up the real cause, which was the insecticide and the GMOs used to kill the mosquito. Most of the birth defects were centered around the factories which produced the insecticides.
Fear the *boss* of the numbskull.
Trumpsky already has a 70% approval rating among Cossack and he hasn't even taken power yet.
Tim Cotten (ex vet) won't be Defense Secretary, as he put it " COTTON: Vladimir Putin was a KGB spy and he never got over that. He does not have America’s best interests at heart and he does not have any American interests at heart. I suspect, after this week, when Donald Trump is the nominee and he begins to receive classified briefings, similar briefings to what I receive as a member of the Intelligence Committee, he may have a different perspective on Vladimir Putin and what Russia is doing to America’s interests and allies in Europe and the Middle East and Asia.".
Trump had those briefings, he knew Putin's hackers were hacking the elections in his favor and he gratefully accepted their help. So Cotton might be the popular GOP figure, the GOP might want his as head of Defense, but Trump cannot let him be Defense Secretary because Trump works for Putin, and Putin won't let a hawk in that job.
Zika does nothing to me. Yawn.
GOP want him. But Trump wants only pro-Putin people in power.
You get this weird conflict. For example, Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn is on the shortlist. He's normally a hawk, strong on Putin, strong on Iran, strong on China, etc. *But* to get the job, he bends his views, so he's now promoting himself as *PRO* Putin.
Winter is coming to North America, and with it freezes, which kill mosquitoes. Without transmission, the epidemic will die out, at least until next summer.
Democrat "editor" BeauHD stupefied to learn mosquito-born illness no longer a threat as temperatures dive and we approach winter, study finds.
News at 11:00.
This has been tagged as a silent killer because people don't give much attention to it. www.bloodpressuretrackers.com
Zika is mainly spread by mosquito isn't it?
I am sure the blizzard we had yesterday took out all the remaining mosquitos around here.
It's incredible how misleading this headline is. Technical terminology confuses the lay public once again.
Zika, nothing an orange wig won't cure.
The small hands remain incurable.
"He's got the whole world in his hands"
but with those mini mittens
the world just got downsized deplorably
reeeeeeeeeee
Zika is bollocks.