Yo, Where Do You Think This Disease Comes From? Zika?

[1stRambo]

Yo, we can all thank the ""Socialist Progressive Democrat Party"" for this disease coming to America!!! Mind you, it`s all about Votes, not protecting the safety of the U.S.A. Citizen!!! So run out and "VOTE" a Republican to fix this disaster!!!

Mar 10, 6:02 PM EST

NEARLY 200 CASES OF ZIKA IN US; OFFICIALS PRESS FOR FUNDS

BY MIKE STOBBE
AP MEDICAL WRITER

NEW YORK (AP) -- Nearly 200 cases of Zika infection have been reported in the U.S. - all traced to travel abroad.

Health officials released the numbers Thursday, and pleaded for Congress to provide $1.9 billion to fight the virus in Latin America and help prevent it from spreading to the continental U.S.

Some of the money would go to Puerto Rico, where Zika is spreading locally and 159 cases have been reported.

Capitol Hill Republicans have deferred the request, insisting leftover Ebola funds can be used. Health officials say new funding is needed.

Zika virus is mainly spread through mosquito bites. At worst, it causes only mild symptoms. But there's growing evidence linking it to a rare birth defect and to a nerve condition that causes temporary paralysis.

Two U.S. soldiers in South America contracted, recovered from Zika: commander

:GTP"

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Didn't know flying insects feared walls, which we don't have?

 

[1stRambo]

Didn't know flying insects feared walls, which we don't have?

Yo, they love poor people in Central America!

"GTP"

 

[waltky]

Zika outbreak in Tahiti had 1% birth defects risk two years ago...

Women with Zika in Tahiti had 1 percent birth defects risk
Mar 15,`16 -- Women who got pregnant during a Zika outbreak in Tahiti two years ago had about a 1 percent chance of having a baby with an abnormally small head, according to a new study published Tuesday. It's a surprisingly low risk that experts say might not match the threat of the epidemic now spreading explosively in the Americas.

The World Health Organization declared Zika to be a global emergency last month, based on suspicions it is causing a spike in a worrying birth defect known as microcephaly as well as a rare condition that sometimes results in temporary paralysis. Before reaching the Americas last year, the mosquito-spread Zika triggered epidemics in the South Pacific and in French Polynesia, including its biggest island, Tahiti. Most people who are infected don't get sick or only have mild symptoms. After a surge in microcephaly was detected in Brazil, international scientists combed through records from the 2013-14 Tahiti outbreak to see if the same thing had happened there.

They found only eight such cases after tracking about 8,000 pregnant women. Seven occurred near the end of the outbreak, which researchers said suggested their mothers had been infected early in their pregnancies. Of those cases, five of the pregnancies were terminated. The researchers created a mathematical model that estimated about 1 out of every 100 pregnant women infected with Zika during their first trimester might have a baby with an unusually small head. The paper was published online Tuesday in the journal, Lancet.

Gleyse Kelly da Silva, 27, holds her daughter Maria Giovanna, who was born with microcephaly, outside their house in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil. Women who got pregnant during a Zika outbreak in Tahiti two years ago had about a 1 percent chance of having a baby with an abnormally small head, according to a new study published Tuesday, March 15. It’s a surprisingly low risk that experts say might not match the threat of the epidemic now spreading explosively in the Americas. The World Health Organization declared Zika to be a global emergency last month, based on suspicions it is causing a spike in a worrying birth defect known as microcephaly as well as a rare condition that sometimes results in temporary paralysis.

But another researcher not involved in the study said the figure seems too low given the birth defects seen in Brazil. Laura Rodrigues, a professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said she expected the figure to be closer to 10 percent "If 1 percent is right, then that would be great news," said Rodrigues, who has spent time in Brazil researching the outbreak. "But it just seems a bit implausible right now." Other viruses that cause the birth defect carry higher risk - like rubella, which has a 40 to 100 percent risk of birth defects when women are infected during their first trimester of pregnancy.

Simon Cauchemez, the study's lead author, warned that the widespread Zika infections seen in French Polynesia - where two thirds of the population were sickened - could have serious consequences for the outbreak in Brazil. "If you take 1 percent of the many pregnant women infected, clearly this is a big concern for public health," Cauchemez said. Other experts said Zika might have mutated into a more dangerous form since it first appeared in French Polynesia. "Something in the virus could have changed to make it more or less harmful to the fetus," said Dr. Ganeshwaran H. Mochida, a neurologist at Boston Children's Hospital. Rodrigues said it would likely be several more months before any definitive conclusions can be reached. "We will soon have more pieces of the puzzle," she said.

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[waltky]

Zika/microcephaly/Guillain-Barre syndrome link...

Zika mystery deepens with evidence of nerve cell infections
April 6, 2016 - Top Zika investigators now believe that the birth defect microcephaly and the paralyzing Guillain-Barre syndrome may be just the most obvious maladies caused by the mosquito-borne virus.

Fueling that suspicion are recent discoveries of serious brain and spinal cord infections - including encephalitis, meningitis and myelitis - in people exposed to Zika. Evidence that Zika's damage may be more varied and widespread than initially believed adds pressure on affected countries to control mosquitoes and prepare to provide intensive - and, in some cases, lifelong - care to more patients. The newly suspected disorders can cause paralysis and permanent disability - a clinical outlook that adds urgency to vaccine development efforts.

Scientists are of two minds about why these new maladies have come into view. The first is that, as the virus is spreading through such large populations, it is revealing aspects of Zika that went unnoticed in earlier outbreaks in remote and sparsely populated areas. The second is that the newly detected disorders are more evidence that the virus has evolved. "What we're seeing are the consequences of this virus turning from the African strain to a pandemic strain," said Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine.

The Zika outbreak was first detected in Brazil last year and is spreading through the Americas. It has been linked to thousands of suspected cases of microcephaly, a typically rare birth defect marked by unusually small head size, signaling a problem with brain development. Evidence linking Zika to microcephaly prompted the World Health Organization to declare a global health emergency in February. The suspicion that Zika acts directly on nerve cells began with autopsies on aborted and stillborn fetuses showing the virus replicating in brain tissues. In addition to microcephaly, researchers reported finding other abnormalities linked with Zika including fetal deaths, placental insufficiency, fetal growth retardation and injury to the central nervous system.

Doctors also are worried that Zika exposure in utero may have hidden effects, such as behavioral problems or learning disabilities, that are not apparent at birth. "If you have a virus that is toxic enough to produce microcephaly in someone, you could be sure that it will produce a whole series of conditions that we haven't even begun to understand," said Dr. Alberto de la Vega, an obstetrician at San Juan's University Hospital in Puerto Rico. First discovered in the Zika forest of Uganda in 1947, the virus circulated quietly in Africa and Asia, causing rare infections and producing mild symptoms. A 2013 outbreak in French Polynesia, the largest at that time, led researchers to make the Guillain-Barre link. Other neurological effects were noted but scientists made little of them at the time.

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Doctors Urge Congress to Fund Zika Research, Preparation
April 05, 2016 - The mosquito breeding season is getting underway in the U.S., and with it has come a growing concern about the mosquito-borne Zika virus.

Dozens of organizations joined the March of Dimes on Tuesday in urging Congress to approve an emergency funding measure to protect pregnant women and to promote research on the Zika virus. "Zika virus is on our nation’s doorstep. It is up to us to close the door," said Dr. Edward McCabe, senior vice president and medical director of the March of Dimes Foundation. McCabe's remarks came during a teleconference in which he and others implored lawmakers to provide immediate, emergency funding. "We have only weeks to prepare before the mosquitoes, and perhaps the virus, will get ahead of us," he said. Zika is linked to microcephaly, which causes a spectrum of birth defects, miscarriages and deaths in infants, as well as paralysis in adults. In January, the World Health Organization called the virus an international public health emergency because of its link to microcephaly.

President Barack Obama asked Congress in early February for $1.9 billion in emergency funding to fight the Zika virus. U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan responded in late March by saying the federal government has "plenty of money" and could use emergency funds left over from Ebola programs to fight Zika. But the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institutes of Health say that money already has been allocated to prevent another Ebola pandemic. Pregnant women have been cautioned to wear protective clothing and use insect repellent to try to avoid getting mosquito bites. But Dr. Hal Lawrence, executive vice president of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists noted that "50 percent of pregnancies in this country are unintended." In an interview with VOA, Lawrence pointed out that the virus is also sexually transmitted. "Contraception is a very important part of the multipronged attack in protecting women" against a virus for which there are "no treatment options and a lot of uncertainty," Lawrence said at the news conference.

Agency cutbacks

Associations representing state and local health departments also signed the petition. Dr. Oscar Alleyne, senior adviser for public health programs at the National Association of County and City Health Officials, told VOA, "Many health departments have seen reduced funding, reduced budgets over the course of time, whether it’s for vector control or normal surveillance activities. That just makes us a weaker infrastructure to combat this particular threat and other threats like it."

James Blumenstock, chief program officer at the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, also made that point during Tuesday's news conference. He said funding and positions with public health programs have been severely cut over the years, which is another reason that emergency funds are needed. Because of what they see as an urgent need, 68 patient advocacy and health organizations have added their voices to those of the federal health agencies and Obama in petitioning Congress for new funding to help slow the spread of Zika and to finance programs to develop and test a vaccine. The House of Representatives returns from recess April 12.

Doctors Urge Congress to Fund Zika Research, Preparation

 

[Skull Pilot]

Just another ruse to scare the sheep into letting the government spend more money

 

[IsaacNewton]

Zika first encountered in 1947. It's taken that long to migrate across the ocean.

There are millions of viruses out there just waiting to mutate, or lying dormant in the dirt or water waiting for the right host. At any moment one could mutate and become a new black plague and wipe out half of the human race. There are many variants or strains of each type and they are constantly mutating. This is why the common cold is 'common' and new vaccines are needed for flu every year.

Viruses are not alive. They are generally just dna wrapped in a protein case. No metabolism, no moving parts, no cytoplasm. Their protein coating attaches to a cell and injects their dna (or rna) into the host cell. It then incorporates into the host cell's dna and the cell itself starts producing more virus until it explodes and releases it to infect other cells.

The molecular 'keys' on the surface of this protein case mutate, so what may block them this year won't work next year. It is a never ending battle for medicine to try to keep up and predict what mutations may occur next.

And we'll never win. Viruses may be the oldest 'lifelike' material on Earth.

 

[tinynascarfan]

Luke 21:11And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven

 

[Old Rocks]

Didn't know flying insects feared walls, which we don't have?

Yo, they love poor people in Central America!

"GTP"
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I see. So those two soldiers are poor people? And the tourists that have returned home with it from mosquito bites are poor people? Crap, but you are stupid, Rambut.

 

[longknife]

Yo, we can all thank the ""Socialist Progressive Democrat Party"" for this disease coming to America!!! Mind you, it`s all about Votes, not protecting the safety of the U.S.A. Citizen!!! So run out and "VOTE" a Republican to fix this disaster!!!

Mar 10, 6:02 PM EST

NEARLY 200 CASES OF ZIKA IN US; OFFICIALS PRESS FOR FUNDS

BY MIKE STOBBE
AP MEDICAL WRITER

NEW YORK (AP) -- Nearly 200 cases of Zika infection have been reported in the U.S. - all traced to travel abroad.

Health officials released the numbers Thursday, and pleaded for Congress to provide $1.9 billion to fight the virus in Latin America and help prevent it from spreading to the continental U.S.

Some of the money would go to Puerto Rico, where Zika is spreading locally and 159 cases have been reported.

Capitol Hill Republicans have deferred the request, insisting leftover Ebola funds can be used. Health officials say new funding is needed.

Zika virus is mainly spread through mosquito bites. At worst, it causes only mild symptoms. But there's growing evidence linking it to a rare birth defect and to a nerve condition that causes temporary paralysis.

Two U.S. soldiers in South America contracted, recovered from Zika: commander

:GTP"
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It was created in a secret lab somewhere in a conservative stronghold and released in Brazil in order to destroy the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Like HIV was designed to decimate gays and ebola to destroy blacks, this was created to destroy Hispanic babies.

Run! Run! Run!

 

[WinterBorn]

Yo, we can all thank the ""Socialist Progressive Democrat Party"" for this disease coming to America!!! Mind you, it`s all about Votes, not protecting the safety of the U.S.A. Citizen!!! So run out and "VOTE" a Republican to fix this disaster!!!

Mar 10, 6:02 PM EST

NEARLY 200 CASES OF ZIKA IN US; OFFICIALS PRESS FOR FUNDS

BY MIKE STOBBE
AP MEDICAL WRITER

NEW YORK (AP) -- Nearly 200 cases of Zika infection have been reported in the U.S. - all traced to travel abroad.

Health officials released the numbers Thursday, and pleaded for Congress to provide $1.9 billion to fight the virus in Latin America and help prevent it from spreading to the continental U.S.

Some of the money would go to Puerto Rico, where Zika is spreading locally and 159 cases have been reported.

Capitol Hill Republicans have deferred the request, insisting leftover Ebola funds can be used. Health officials say new funding is needed.

Zika virus is mainly spread through mosquito bites. At worst, it causes only mild symptoms. But there's growing evidence linking it to a rare birth defect and to a nerve condition that causes temporary paralysis.

Two U.S. soldiers in South America contracted, recovered from Zika: commander

:GTP"
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How exactly is the "Socialist Progressive Democrat Party" responsible for a mosquito born virus? Or are you just a political version of those fundamentalists who blame Satan for everything from earthquakes to violent crime to tooth decay?

 

[FJO]

I am surprised that nobody said (at least not yet) that Zika virus was developed by whites in order to kill blacks.