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Waste of money and lack of Zika funds

Here's $49,577,386 That Could Have Gone to Zika Relief | Nwo Report
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Apr 14, 2016 - First case of Zika infection after sex between gay men: US ... Scientists uncover a potential approach to combat obesity in those prone to weight gain ... The White House requested $1.9 billion in emergency funding for Zika in February ..... a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers.
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Eight have been among gay or bisexual men, including seven within the last two... Show more. all stories ... Ann M. Simmons. Outbreaks of ... Yellow fever outbreak: Health officials to weigh declaring global emergency. Ann M. Simmons ... Zika will only get 'scarier' if lawmakers are stingy with emergency funds. The Times ...

 

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Waste of money and lack of Zika funds

Here's $49,577,386 That Could Have Gone to Zika Relief | Nwo Report
Here’s $49,577,386 That Could Have Gone to Zika Reliefzika-relief...
1 day ago - HHS has so far received $374 million for domestic Zika relief, ... their weight with their daughters has now cost taxpayers $156,324, ... The NIH has increased funding for a study of the satisfaction levels of young gay mens' first ...
Missing: oann
Utah woman is 1st confirmed Zika-related death in continental US ...
www.foxnews.com/.../utah-woman-is-1st-confirmed-zika-related-d...
Fox News Channel
Jul 9, 2016 - A Utah woman has died after becoming infected with the Zika virus, the ... COULD BE CONNIVANCE TO ASSURE FUNDS FROM THE .... As long as you weren't messing around with gay men or passing around needles in gay clubs, you .... Google Ann Dunham as it is a fascinating story with an ending that ...
First case of Zika infection after sex between gay men: US | Abomus ...
news.abomus.com/en/brazil/.../first-case-zika-infection-after-sex-between-gay-men-us
Apr 14, 2016 - First case of Zika infection after sex between gay men: US ... Scientists uncover a potential approach to combat obesity in those prone to weight gain ... The White House requested $1.9 billion in emergency funding for Zika in February ..... a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers.
Diseases and Illnesses Articles, Photos, and Videos - Los Angeles ...
www.latimes.com › Topics › Health
Los Angeles Times
Eight have been among gay or bisexual men, including seven within the last two... Show more. all stories ... Ann M. Simmons. Outbreaks of ... Yellow fever outbreak: Health officials to weigh declaring global emergency. Ann M. Simmons ... Zika will only get 'scarier' if lawmakers are stingy with emergency funds. The Times ...

That first article you linked on wasted money by the National Institute of Health on various studies is sickening, especially in light of serious health crises. .

 

[waltky]

Zika may cause hearing loss...

Study: Zika Linked to Hearing Loss
August 30, 2016 - Add hearing loss to the list of health problems that could be caused by the Zika virus.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the study Tuesday, saying that out of nearly 70 children infected with the virus, four had hearing loss that appeared to be unconnected with any other health issue. This, the researchers say, could mean the hearing problems stem from Zika as the issue appears to be caused by damage to the nerve that links the ear with the brain.

Zika is known to cause a form of birth defect called microcephaly, meaning having an abnormally small head. It has also been linked to vision problems and brain damage. There have been nearly 700 confirmed Zika cases in the United States. These include more than 60 pregnant women. One Zika-related case of microcephaly was confirmed in the island state of Hawaii.

An Aedes aegypti mosquito sits inside a glass tube at the Fiocruz institute where they have been screening for mosquitos naturally infected with the Zika virus in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In Puerto Rico fear over Zika is stunting the growth of tourism, the only industry that was starting to flourish as the island teeters on financial collapse amid a decade-long economic crisis.​

Health officials say in the U.S., the virus has been reported mostly in Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and American Samoa; but, they say they believe it is spreading in the continental U.S. The study’s authors suggest that babies with suspected Zika exposure should undergo hearing tests, even if there have been no indications of a problem.

Zika’s effects on adults are relatively mild, with nearly 80 percent of infected adults reportedly having no symptoms. The remaining 20 percent reported mild symptoms such as a fever and rash. The study was published in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

Study: Zika Linked to Hearing Loss

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Researchers Find Drug Compounds to Target Zika
August 29, 2016 - Researchers in the United States have identified a number of drug compounds that stop the spread of the Zika virus, potentially protecting pregnant women and their unborn babies from the mosquito-borne illness. One of the compounds already is used to treat tapeworms.

Researchers at the U.S. National Institutes of Health screened a library of 6,000 existing drugs and experimental compounds. Then, investigators at Florida State University in Tallahassee and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore tested the drugs. The compounds were shown to block the ability of the Zika virus to kill cells and to keep the microbe from reproducing within infected cells. Both classes of compounds were neuro-protective, showing activity in fetal brain cells affected by microcephaly. They include neural progenitor cells that contribute to the development of the fetal brain. Scientists found that the compounds work either before or after exposure to Zika, and that they are most effective when more than one is used at the same time. Discovery of the compounds was published in the journal Nature Medicine.

Power of suppression

Hengli Tang, Florida State University Biological Sciences professor and researcher, said that if and when the drugs become available, they would be used to thwart transmission and would not be used in pregnant women. "But even if you can treat Zika-infected men or non-pregnant women, you can still have the ... potential to cut down transmission,” Tang said, “because with the suppression of viral replication, you reduce the amount of virus that's in an infected person and that can reduce the chance of transmission by mosquito bites or sexually."

A natural resources officer with Broward County Mosquito Control, looks through a microscope at Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in Pembroke Pines, Florida​

Earlier this year, Tang's team was the first to show how Zika caused microcephaly. The search is urgent for a drug to treat Zika or to prevent transmission of the virus, which can cause microcephaly in developing fetuses. Babies with microcephaly are born with abnormally small heads and brains, causing a host of disabilities. The disease already has infected thousands of pregnant women from Brazil through North America. In people who are not pregnant, the virus causes relatively minor flu-like symptoms, but also can cause a rare neurological disease in adults called Guillain-Barre syndrome.

Hope in ‘repurposed’ drugs

Because at least one of the promising drugs already is approved by U.S. regulators, doctors could prescribe now, though it is not known how much of the compound should be given or how often. Tang said it is possible researchers eventually could formulate the drugs to give to pregnant women. "If a compound is modified and the anti-viral is modified so it's safe to use in pregnancy,” Tang said, “then the mechanism of the anti-viral would be to reduce the virus to a low enough level that it will have a much lower or zero chance of getting to the fetus to begin with. And that's sort of the idea of an anti-viral." The compounds have been what scientists called "repurposed," meaning they already have received regulatory approval for use or testing in humans for other disorders. That could speed the time it takes to get Zika drugs to the public. Even so, Tang predicts it might be two more years before that happens.

Researchers Find Drug Compounds to Target Zika

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US Study: Adult Mosquitoes Can Pass Zika to Their Offspring
August 29, 2016 — Adult female mosquitoes can pass the Zika virus along to their offspring, U.S. researchers said Monday, a finding that makes clear the need for pesticide programs that kill both adult mosquitoes and their eggs.

The findings, published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, show that as with many related viruses, including dengue and yellow fever, Zika can be transmitted from female mosquitoes to their offspring. Dr. Robert Tesh of the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas, a study co-author, said the fact that the virus can be passed along to mosquito offspring makes Zika harder to control. "Spraying affects adults, but it does not usually kill the immature forms — the eggs and larvae. Spraying will reduce transmission, but it may not eliminate the virus," he said.

Although Zika generally causes mild illness in adults, it is a major threat to pregnant women because it has been shown to cause the severe birth defect known as microcephaly and other brain abnormalities. The ongoing Zika outbreak was first detected last year in Brazil, where it has been linked to more than 1,800 cases of microcephaly, and has since spread rapidly through the Americas. Aedes aegypti, the mosquitoes that carry Zika, lay eggs in small containers of water. Homeowners have been advised to dump out containers of water on their properties. When the water is dumped, the eggs cling in a ring around the water line, where they remain dormant until the next rain, when they can hatch.

Mosquito larvae are seen inside Sun Yat-Sen University-Michigan State University Joint Center of Vector Control for Tropical Disease, the world’s largest "mosquito factory," which breeds millions of bacteria-infected mosquitoes in the fight against the spread of viruses, in Guangzhou, China​

Scientists studying Zika wanted to find out whether some of the offspring from these tropical mosquitoes might carry the virus, helping to perpetuate an outbreak during dry seasons. To find out, researchers injected female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes raised in a laboratory with Zika. They were then fed, and within a week, they laid eggs. The team collected and cared for the eggs until they hatched into adult mosquitoes, and counted the ones that carried the Zika virus. They found the virus present in one out of every 290 mosquitoes tested. "The ratio may sound low," Tesh said, "but when you consider the number of Aedes aegypti in a tropical urban community, it is likely high enough to allow some virus to persist, even when infected adult mosquitoes are killed."

Tesh said the next step is to show that mosquitoes are actually passing Zika to their offspring in the wild. Experts fighting Zika in the Wynwood neighborhood of Miami have announced aerial spraying campaigns using pesticides that kill both adult mosquitoes and mosquito larvae. For homeowners in affected areas, Tesh advised people to dump standing water from containers on their property and scrub them thoroughly to remove eggs and larvae. They should also remove any objects from their yards that could collect water.

US Study: Adult Mosquitoes Can Pass Zika to Their Offspring

 

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Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex has been getting sprayed daily for over a week now. What's weird is in the past couple years people who don't want the area sprayed have written the newspapers, petitioned city halls and almost gone berserk trying to get it stopped. We'll bury them with their boots on.

 

[waltky]

Will they turn down Louisiana too?...

Zika money 'essentially all spent': US doctors
Wednesday 14th September, 2016: Money to fight the spread of Zika virus in the United States is "essentially all spent," top US doctors said Tuesday (Sep 13), urging Congress to come to agreement on new funding measures.

The United States and its territories have recorded more than 19,600 Zika infections, and Florida is seeing a rise in locally transmitted cases of the virus which is particularly dangerous for pregnant women because it can cause microcephaly, an irreversible deformation of the brain and skull, in infants. Already, 18 babies have been born with Zika-related birth defects in the United States, said Beth Bell, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases.

However, a US$1.1 billion funding bill was rejected last week for the third time by US Senate Democrats, after Republicans inserted language that would end funding for a major abortion provider, Planned Parenthood. In a conference call with reporters Tuesday, leading doctors from the CDC, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the American Academy of Pediatrics warned that critical elements of the public health response and research on vaccines may come to a halt by month's end. "Funding for Zika research, for prevention and for control efforts - including mosquito surveillance and control - is essentially all spent," said Bell. "Without additional resources from Congress, critical public health work may not be accomplished."

She said lawmakers have provided no funds for health authorities in the next fiscal year, which begins in October. "There will be severely limited capacity to support mosquito control and surveillance, no funds to conduct multi-year studies needed to protect pregnant women by better understanding the link between Zika disease and birth defects, and no support to states and territories like Florida and Puerto Rico to manage cases of Zika-diagnosed patients and increase lab capacity," Bell warned.

Important work on vaccine research may be suspended or cancelled, and efforts to devise better tests for Zika will also be slowed or stopped altogether, she said. "Allowing this to happen needlessly puts the American people at risk and will result in more Zika infections and potentially more babies being born with microcephaly and other birth defects."

POLITICAL BATTLE

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White House asks Congress for $2.6 billion to help Louisiana
September 13, 2016 | WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration asked Congress on Tuesday for $2.6 billion to help Louisiana rebuild from disastrous floods that have ravaged the state.

The White House request is for rebuilding damaged homes and infrastructure, helping small businesses and funding community development projects. It comes as Gov. John Bel Edwards returns to Washington to press the case for money to help Louisiana. Tuesday evening's letter from White House budget chief Shaun Donovan asked Congress to "provide additional funding to address Louisiana's unmet housing and infrastructure needs as soon as possible."

On Monday, Edwards upped his aid request to $2.8 billion. He has the backing of Louisiana's GOP-dominated congressional delegation. It is likely too late for the administration request to be included in a stopgap spending measure under development that's required to prevent a government shutdown at month's end. But additional spending legislation that is expected to advance in December is more likely to include the money.

Last month's floods have displaced tens thousands of people from their homes. More than 140,000 individuals have registered for government help. Donovan said 73,000 families are receiving temporary housing assistance at a cost of more than $600 million, paid for from existing Federal Emergency Management Agency funds. Edwards is expected to meet with House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., during his Washington visit.

White House asks Congress for $2.6 billion to help Louisiana

 

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Zika the new bird flu

 

[waltky]

Zika lowered from emergency status...

Zika virus 'no longer an emergency' - WHO
Fri, 18 Nov 2016 - The World Health Organization says the Zika virus needs "enduring action" not emergency status now.

The mosquito-borne Zika virus will no longer be treated as an international medical emergency, the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared. By lifting its nine-month-old declaration, the UN's health agency is acknowledging that Zika is here to stay. The infection has been linked to severe birth defects in almost 30 countries. These include microcephaly, where babies are born with abnormally small heads and restricted brain development. The WHO says more than 2,100 cases of nervous-system malformations have been reported in Brazil alone.

Ana Beatriz, a baby girl with microcephaly, celebrates her first fourth months of life in Lagoa do Carro, Pernambuco, Brazil​

Although the virus is mostly spread by mosquitoes, it can also be sexually transmitted. Few people die from Zika and only one in five people infected is thought to develop symptoms. These can include fever, a rash and joint pain. Dr David Heymann, the head of a WHO emergency committee on the virus, said it still posed a "significant and enduring" threat. The WHO will now shift to a longer-term approach against the infection, which has spread across Latin America, the Caribbean and beyond.

Where did Zika come from?

It was first identified in monkeys in Uganda in 1947. The first human case was detected in Nigeria in 1954 and there have been further outbreaks in Africa, South East Asia and the Pacific Islands. Most were small and Zika has not previously been considered a major threat to human health. But in May 2015 it was reported in Brazil and has since spread rapidly. "Its current explosive pandemic re-emergence is, therefore, truly remarkable," the US National Institutes of Health said.

Zika virus 'no longer an emergency' - WHO - BBC News

 

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winter, most mosquitoes are dead and larvae will not hatch till spring

 

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UN says zika slowing development in Latin America and Caribbean...

UN: Latin America's Poor Need More Help to Tackle Zika
April 06, 2017 — The ripple effects of the Zika virus are hitting the poor hard in Latin America and the Caribbean, and could knock back development unless states involve communities in a stronger push to tackle the disease, a U.N.-led study said Thursday.

The mosquito-borne Zika virus will cost the region between $7 billion and $18 billion from 2015 to 2017, said the report by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). Large economies like Brazil will shoulder the biggest share of the cost, but poorer countries such as Belize and Haiti will suffer the severest impacts, it added.

A worker of the Ministry of Public Health and Population fumigates in the street against mosquito breeding to prevent diseases such as malaria, dengue and Zika in Port-au-Prince, Haiti​

Jessica Faieta, UNDP director for the region, said the virus — linked to birth defects in some cases where it infects pregnant women — is not only causing direct economic losses and putting health systems under stress. "The long-term consequences of the Zika virus can undermine decades of social development, hard-earned health gains and slow progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals," she said in a statement.

Focusing on Brazil, Colombia and Suriname, the report calculated that the economic impact of the virus was five times higher for the Caribbean than South America, and could cost the Caribbean as much as $9 billion in lost revenues over the three-year period as tourists stay away. Labelling Zika a "disease of poverty," the study said support was not reaching the region's most vulnerable who often lack access to health and social services. Countries are struggling to coordinate and finance programs to control, monitor and diagnose the virus, it added.

Mothers with their children, who have microcephaly, await medical care at the Hospital Oswaldo Cruz, in Recife, Brazil​

Walter Cotte, IFRC's director for the Americas, said funds should be used to involve communities in responding to the disease, so as to build their resilience and reduce stigma. Carried by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which also hosts dengue, chikungunya and yellow fever, Zika has spread to more than 60 countries and territories since the outbreak was identified in 2015 in Brazil. Here the alarm was raised over Zika's ability to cause microcephaly — a birth defect marked by small head size and underdeveloped brains — and Guillain-Barre syndrome, a rare neurological disorder.

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