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15 Feb ’12
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New study provides strong evidence that Zika is tied to the birth defects
A new study provides the strongest evidence yet that the Zika virus is the cause of devastating birth defects seen in Brazil, home to the largest outbreak of the disease.
Authors of the new study have followed 88 pregnant women in Brazil to see whether being infected with Zika, which is spread by mosquitoes, increases the rate of birth defects. Seventy-two of the women tested positive for the virus. The women's blood and urine were tested five days or less after they developed an itchy rash, a tell-tale symptom of Zika.
Other symptoms of Zika infection included fever, pink eye, swollen lymph nodes and joint pain. Most people with Zika have no symptoms.
Ultrasounds found major abnormalities in 29% of the fetuses from women who tested positive for Zika, but none of the women without Zika infections, according to the study, published online Friday in The New England Journal of Medicine. Women were exposed to the Zika virus between the sixth and 35th week of pregnancy. A typical pregnancy lasts 40 weeks.
6 Oct ’15
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They keep finding things on Zika.:
Paris (AFP) - Suspected of causing brain damage in babies and a rare neurological ailment in adults, the Zika virus was linked by researchers Tuesday to a third disorder: paralysis-causing myelitis...
...Instead, the "presence of Zika virus in the cerebrospinal fluid of our patient with acute myelitis suggests that this virus might be neurotropic" -- something that attacks the nervous system.
15 Feb ’12
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Saw on the news tonight that it is more contagious through sexual contact then they thought
6 Oct ’15
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That is one tough little virus...and smart too. Bird flu, Ebola, Zika, Clinton....the human race is screwed.
15 Feb ’12
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looks like they are beginning testing of genetically modified mosquitos
As a consequence of the Zika virus threat, a British-based biotechnology company is to begin tests on a genetically modified Aedes aegypti mosquito, designed to try to stop transmission of the disease.
The idea is to use a mosquito that has been genetically modified male mosquito that, when it breeds with females, produces offspring that cannot breed. The idea is that this will gradually lead to a reduction in the mosquito population that can carry the virus.
The mosquitoes are modified using synthetic DNA. Initial trials suggest the mosquito population can be reduced by up to 80 percent. This needs proving on a bigger scale, however.
15 Feb ’12
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MS is reporting their first case, how the heck do they expect this to happen, walk around under a mosquito net?
Travelers recently returning from countries with ongoing Zika transmission should take special precautions to avoid mosquito bites in Mississippi to avoid transmitting the virus to local mosquitoes.
6 Oct ’15
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...told ya this was gonna be a tough one. I don't think it's going to ever go away. Best we can hope for is a vaccination; from what I have been reading it might be 5-7 years before they get it working.
...did you see know the virus can be sexually transmitted...a virus just want's to live and thrive.
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