Zika is not “coming” to the United States: It is already here

Peak of Ebola in the US was perhaps 10 people, Zika already has least 300

• At least 292 pregnant women in the US now have Zika

• That is probably a vast undercount

  • • the CDC is not saying how they determin whom to test, nor how many pregnant women fail the test
  • Note: The test only detects Zika infection during previous several weeks,
  •      - ignoring ealier infections which could have resulted in birth defects

• Unknown number of US adults have Zika - which could be spread if bitten by the Zika mosquito
  • And, the mosquito season is just about to start. .

Zika is coming, but we’re far from ready Washington Post May 23, 2016

• "It is not a question of whether babies will be born in the United States with Zika-related microcephaly — it is a question of when and how many"

• Includes a nice 3 minute video summary of Zika

  • >1,000,000 confirmed cases of Zika infection so far in Brazil
  • >7,000 cases of microcephaly in Brazil, 944 confirmed
  • Does not mention the huge number of other Zika birth defects - virtually undetectable in the womb

  Note: the title of this web page is taken directly from the text in the Washington Post article

  Reminder

• Zika antibodies surprisingly also exist in sheep, goats, horses, cows, ducks, rodents, etc. – May 2016

  • This fact has been ignored by the CDC

• Zika far worse than Rubella – May 2016

• A zika-like virus killed 10 percent of those in America’s capital, Philadelphia

• Zika “swat team” in Miami – 12 people to cover 2,000 square miles – June 2016