The mosquito-borne infection is occasionally found in travelers returning home from areas known to be affected, but it has yet to be transmitted in the continental United States.
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Clearly, there are too many unknowns here but what is without debate is the lack of probity and the haste to associate Zika virus with birth defects without any evidence when there are more evidence by correlation to associate the birth defects with the TDAP, GMO mosquitoes or a combination of all three. In less than 1 percent of cases, severe outcomes including microcephaly (abnormally small heads) in infants, miscarriage and Guillain-Barre syndrome have been reported.
Two of the infected Canadians are from the province of British Columbia and one each are from Alberta and Quebec. Brazilian researchers have pointed to a suspected link between pregnant women’s infection with the virus and a rare birth defect in babies.
Thousands of soldiers, health officials and first responders have been fanning out across the Dominican Republic to fumigate and clean up mosquito-prone areas and educate people about the Zika virus. The World Health Organization estimates that 3 to 4 million people in the Americas will be infected in the next year.
Secretary for Food and Health Dr. Ko Wing-man also said that because only up to one quarter of the infected persons might develop relatively mild illness, “the attention was therefore not too big”.
The outbreak is being used by pro-abortion organizations that seek the legal expansion of abortion in countries throughout the region, the majority of which prohibit or tightly restrict abortion.
He spoke Friday at a press conference in Rio de Janeiro.
The virus has been linked to the microcephaly in babies, which prevents fetus’ brains from developing properly.
She says the cleanup operation began Friday at all installations run by the armed forces and at all federal educational, health and other facilities.
Health Minister Isaac Folorunso Adewole is urging health professionals at all ports of entry to examine anyone coming from Latin America for signs of the Zika virus.
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However, we can’t hear anything about the vaccine Brazil gave to its pregnant women in 2014 or the effects of the GMO mosquito on the Zika-carrying mosquitoes. The last time a global emergency was declared was for the Ebola virus.
