Michelle Roberts
BBCMon, 01 Feb 2016 19:15 UTC
© European Press AgencyA child born with brain damage caused by the Zika virus, a mosquito-borne virus which happened in originate in the same place a bunch of genetically modified mosquitoes were released in 2015.
A cluster of microcephaly linked to the Zika virus in Latin America poses a global public health emergency requiring a united response, says the World Health Organization. Experts are worried that the virus is spreading far and fast, with devastating consequences.
The infection has been linked to thousands of babies being born with underdeveloped brains.
The WHO alert puts Zika in the same category of concern as Ebola. It means research and aid will be fast-tracked to tackle the infection. WHO director general, Margaret Chan called Zika an "extraordinary event" that needed a coordinated response.
"I am now declaring that the recent cluster of microcephaly and other neurological abnormalities reported in Latin America following a similar cluster in French Polynesia in 2014 constitutes a public health emergency of international concern."
She said the priorities were to protect pregnant women and their babies from harm and to control the mosquitoes that are spreading the virus.
She advised pregnant women:
- to consider delaying travel to areas affected by Zika
- seek advice from their physician if they are living in areas affected by Zika, as well as protect themselves against mosquito bites by wearing repellent
Dr Chan justified declaring an emergency even amid uncertainties about the disease, saying now was not the time to wait. The WHO faced heavy criticism for waiting too long to declare the Ebola outbreak a public emergency.
Comment: Like the swine flu in 2009, Ebola last year, now ZIKA is the new monster du jour. There's vaccine's in development,
testing by the end of this year! But the real question is does this virus have anything to do with the
GM mosquitoes that were released into Brazil in 2012?
"It has been proven (but not officially admitted) that the zika virus outbreak is not responsible for the birth defects that are prevalent in the same area the main zika outbreak happened in. Something else is causing the birth defects because it has been proven that a large majority of the affected babies have never been exposed to zika. Zika worked as a scapegoat but something else is definitely going on with all of this, and the rush by so many to blame zika is suspicious to say the least, I believe they definitely know what is really happening and are working overtime to bury it."
" The zika virus scam is as stupid as "plastic knives and box cutters". And I always wondered why they ever pushed the "swine flu" and have always suspected they were just referring to "lesser mankind" as pigs, by fronting a pig disease as something that could infect us. Came and went, no mass vaccination needed, and obviously the same is true of Zika, Don't let them push another scam!" Re: Zika, the World Health Psychopaths are now sending the conveniently/timely release of a "GMO mosquito" up the flag pole as a source vector, with the "official" explanation that this creature caused a complete mutation of a virus in the wild that caused mild-to-no symptoms to now cause brain-eating symptoms -in less than a year. They truly are counting on the apathy if not the rank stupidity of the masses. The ONLY way this "GMO mosquito" could so quickly deliver a brain-eating virus is if that mosquito was programmed from the get/go to do exactly that. Evidently they figure the blow back that selling that particular explanation would create is more tenable than having TDaP come under widespread fire, thereby causing ALL vax to be under fire. FYI, just a few years ago, a certain TDaP insert included autism as one of its many significant side effects. That inclusion was curiously removed from the insert with no explanation. TDaP has a very bad pedigree."
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