The Zika Scare: a Political and Commercial Maneuver of the Chemical Poisons Industry

[Judi Lynn]

NOVEMBER 9, 2018
by EVAGGELOS VALLIANATOS

Researchers discovered the Zika virus in the Zika forest of Uganda – in 1947. It is a virus not much different than the viruses causing dengue, yellow fever, Japanese encephalitis, West Nile fever, and St. Luis encephalitis. The Zika virus eventually spread throughout most of the world. Mosquitoes carry and spread the Zika virus. But for decades the Zika disease afflicting humans was free of brain deform or the shrinking of the infant’s brain known as microcephaly (a Greek term meaning tiny brain-head).

The 2016 Olympics in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

I heard the name Zika for the first time in 2016 during the Summer Olympics in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Reporting on the PBS Newshour offered warnings for those going to Brazil. Other large media went almost berserk. They were shouting that women near the Olympics site were giving birth to babies with tiny brains. They blamed Zika virus. They blamed the mosquitoes for the malformation of the brain of the babies. The Olympics should be delayed or moved to another country. Brazil was dangerous.

Imagine hundreds of athletes and hundreds of thousands of tourists returning to Europe and the United States with this dreadful Zika disease, especially pregnant women likely giving birth to deformed babies.

Astonishing as these unverified news stories were, government agencies rushed to give them credence. I heard representatives of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention repeating the questionable newspaper and TV stories about the Zika virus. In addition, CDC keeps saying that fighting Zika virus-carrying mosquitoes in Brazil and Florida with a neurotoxin named “naled” is harmless. After all, farmers and mosquito controllers have been spraying naled for more than fifty years in the United States.

More:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/11/09/the-zika-scare-a-political-and-commercial-maneuver-of-the-chemical-poisons-industry/

[JayhawkSD]

1. Short version

It was not the Zika virus that was causing Microcephaly and other birth defects, it was the toxic chemicals that were being used to kill mosquitos which carried the virus. Infection by Zika causes no more harm than a mild case of the flu.

[NickB79]

2. Which is easily refuted by all the research the CDC has conducted on ot

https://fox6now.com/2018/08/07/cdc-1-in-7-babies-prenatally-exposed-to-zika-has-health-problems/

[Duppers]

3. Kills bees too. 😠

http://npic.orst.edu/factsheets/naledgen.html

Made by:
AMVAC Chemical Corporation

[NNadir]

4. My son often reminds me that both far ends of the political spectrum loop back on...

...on one another and end up in the same place.

This goes for CT stuff as well.

I don't get my science from journalists, particularly looped out journalists who not only fail to know any science, but actually hate science.

Here, for instance, is a discussion of the Zika virus that is mechanistic, since it involves real molecular biology:

Zika virus infection dysregulates human neural stem cell growth and inhibits differentiation into neuroprogenitor cells (Ray et al Cell Death & Disease volume 8, page e3106 (2017))

Zika is no more a chemical industry "plot" than HIV was a "plot" against gay people, and the effort to distract from addressing disease by conspiracy theories, whether they involve anti-vax crap or this is very dangerous, particularly when the government is run by a conspiracy theorist.

Have a nice day.