Tears and Bewilderment in Brazilian City Facing Zika Crisis
Source: New York Times
RECIFE, Brazil So many distraught mothers stream into the infant ward clutching babies with abnormally small heads that the receptionist sends them outside, to see if they can find a chair to wait under the mango tree.
Theres shade there, at least, said Maria Helena Lopes, 66, as she greeted one young mother after another. Well call you when were ready.
Roziline Ferreira took three buses to get here, grasping her 3-month-old son, Arthur, all the way. Tears swelled as she looked at him, recalling how the symptoms of the Zika virus had struck her during the second month of her pregnancy. How would she ever be able to care for him, she wondered? What kind of life would he have?
It gets me angry when someone on the bus looks at Arthur and asks, Whats wrong with his head? Ms. Ferreira said. I tell them, Nothings wrong, hes just different. But then I think to myself, Yes, somethings wrong. My son will never be like the other boys.
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Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/30/world/americas/tears-and-bewilderment-in-brazilian-city-facing-zika-crisis.html?_r=0
valerief
(53,235 posts)can abort. Oops, they can't. Brazil might as well be fuckin' Kansas. First, they need to change their abortion laws. But that wouldn't be the only obstacle. The GAWD thing would also stick women with these deformed babies. Actually, as in the U.S., the GAWD thing is directly entangled with the LAW thing. They don't have separation of Church and State either.
Bernin
(311 posts)the other day that said the center of this Zika outbreak was the same area that genetically modified mosquitoes were released in 2015.
bananas
(27,509 posts)Zika Outbreak Epicenter In Same Area Where GM Mosquitoes Were Released In 2015
http://www.activistpost.com/2016/01/zika-outbreak-epicenter-in-same-area-where-gm-mosquitoes-were-released-in-2015.html
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)FSogol
(45,579 posts)engineered version. Science can help in outbreaks of viruses. Spreading tin-foily misinformation does no one any good.
bananas
(27,509 posts)Zika Virus May Have Spread To Common Mosquito
Scientists in the epicentre of the Zika outbreak suspect the virus is being carried by another, more widespread mosquito.
11:06, UK, Thursday 28 January 2016
By Alex Crawford, Special Correspondent, in Recife
Scientists in Brazil believe the devastating Zika virus may have already crossed over to the common mosquito, dramatically increasing the risk of it spreading worldwide.
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... scientists at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Recife, Pernambuco State, in the northeast of the country, ...
They say they are as little as a month away from confirming that the virus is also being carried and transmitted by the much more common Culex mosquito.
There are 20 times more Culex mosquitos in existence as the Aedes aegypti and they are significantly more widespread - breeding throughout most of the Americas, parts of Africa and Asia - so increasing the chances of the virus spreading.
The lead research scientist at the foundation, Constancia Ayres, told Sky News that if her suspicions are confirmed, the implications are huge.
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Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)with an unlimited budget living in Brazil who might dig into this...
Nah, he's spending all his days hate-tweeting about Hillary and "the establishment"