“Zika Virus”: El Salvador Asks Women Not to Get Pregnant Until 2018

January 23rd, 2016

Via: Washington Post:

The rapid spread of the Zika virus has prompted Latin American governments to urge women not to get pregnant for up to two years, an extraordinary precaution aimed at avoiding birth defects believed to be linked to the mosquito-borne illness.

What until recently was a seemingly routine public health problem for countries that are home to a certain type of mosquito has morphed into a potentially culture-shaping phenomenon in which the populations of several nations have been asked to delay procreation. The World Health Organization says at least 20 countries or territories in the region, including Barbados and Bolivia, Guadeloupe and Guatemala, Puerto Rico and Panama, have registered transmission of the virus.

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3 Responses to ““Zika Virus”: El Salvador Asks Women Not to Get Pregnant Until 2018”

  1. pookie says:

    Fear-based social control beta testing?

  2. tal says:

    There is zero evidence linking zika virus to microcephaly.

    Zika has been known since the 1940s without ever being implicated in this condition.

    Known causes of microcephaly are: chicken pox; rubella (and presumably their live-virus vaccines); alcohol/drug abuse; exposure to “certain toxic chemicals”; PKU.

    http://www.medicinenet.com/microcephaly/page2.htm

    The direct effect of glyphosate on early mechanisms of morphogenesis in vertebrate embryos opens concerns about the clinical findings from human offspring in populations exposed to GBH in agricultural fields.

    http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/tx1001749

    examination of the German authorities’ draft assessment report on the industry studies, which underlies glyphosate’s EU authorisation, revealed further evidence of glyphosate’s teratogenicity. Many of the malformations found were of the type defined in the scientific literature as associated with retinoic acid teratogenesis.pdf
    http://www.gmoseralini.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/antoniou2012_terat.pdf

    One of the first reports I saw suggested using GM mosquitoes to deal with the scary ‘new’ mosquito-borne virus…

  3. tal says:

    Why look, Brazil is “sending in the troops” to deal with the zika virus:

    Brazil sends in 200,000 soldiers to stop the spread of the Zika virus outbreak which has seen huge numbers of babies born with small heads

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3417175/Brazil-sends-200-000-soldiers-stop-spread-Zika-virus-outbreak-seen-huge-numbers-babies-born-small-heads.html

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