Zika Has ‘Explosive Pandemic Potential’
January 28th, 2016Here we go again.
Via: Independent:
The Zika virus has the potential to become an “explosive pandemic” amid fears it may have already crossed to the common mosquito – thereby increasing its chances of being spreading around the world.
Brazilian experts at Oswaldo Cruz Foundation believe the virus, which was originally thought to be confined to the Aedes Aegypti mosquito in the tropics, may have already crossed over to the culex mosquito, which is 20 times more common in Brazil and also present in parts of Africa and Asia.
Zika is a mild, self-limiting, mosquito-borne disease with no known sequelae observed since it’s discovery in 1947. Most people with circulating antibodies don’t even recall being sick.
Something else is causing the ‘epidemic’ of microcephaly in Brazil…if there IS an epidemic of microcephaly in Brazil:
Medics in Brazil investigating head-shrinking birth defects linked to the Zika virus revealed last night there were just six cases from more than 700 children examined.
Researchers have been probing 4,180 suspected microcephaly cases reported since October – and doing intense analysis on 732 of those cases which has confirmed 270 and ruled out the other 462.
However Brazil’s Health Ministry said only six of the 270 confirmed cases were found to have the Zika virus – with two being stillborn and four live births, three of whom later died.
Medics probing head-shrinking birth defects in Brazil say just SIX cases from 700 babies examined tested positive for Zika virus
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3419738/Brazil-270-4-120-suspected-microcephaly-cases-confirmed.html