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Zika virus update.


Posted: Jul 29, 2016

Four cases of Zika infection contracted in Florida north of Miami.  All you southerners to contract your public officials and put the pressure on.  The poorest southern states are the most vulnerable.  Thousands of babies born without brains will cause a health and economic disaster for those states and the rest of the country.  Congress left without approving any appropriations.

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Zika virus - not sure

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Watch carefully whether anyone who contracts the Zika virus in the US while pregnant delivers a baby with microcephaly. I have family in Brazil and there are two trains of thought there - one - that it is the spray that the government sprays mosquitoes with that causes the microcephaly - done mostly in poor slum areas. The second train of thought is that during the last president of Brazil's term, she cut corners financially wherever she could. In Brazil, women get 2 injections in early pregnancy and one of those 2 injections was thought to cause the microcephaly. Lets watch for the first baby born in the US with microcephaly from the zika virus. The zika virus has been around for a long time.

Mothers who contracted the virus in several countries... - sm

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Have given birth to or aborted babies with microcephaly. These are women who were not exposed to pesticides in Brazil or receive any jackson's in early pregnancy. Just because the Zika Biris has been around a long time and has never caused microcephaly before does not mean that the buyers has not mutated, which viruses are very prone to do. Are you willing to take that chance and wait?

whew..... - cool down...

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I'm just saying what I know coming from family and friends in Brazil. Thought it was interesting - certainly, if I were thinking of getting pregnant (not a chance), I would be watching things pretty close. Just trying to have a conversation here.
It's scary, too, with all the young women attending the Olympics. - sm
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I understand why some have decided not to go. It's a shame, too, after all their hard work.

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