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Topic: Fighting Zika Virus - The Battle Begins
Posted By: Medclinician
Subject: Fighting Zika Virus - The Battle Begins
Date Posted: May 20 2016 at 10:56am

The threat from Zika virus to the world is hardly over. It is not only more, but approaches as we near Summer and Zika carrying mosquitoes may be found as far north as New York and Washington D.C.

Sometimes things are just a little too quiet and you all should be aware behind the scenes the governments are scrambling trying to get ready for a disease that could reach near Pandemic levels. It is no longer confined to the tropics and hundreds of cases are being diagnosed, and thousands still in Brazil.

The war is not over, it has only just begun.



Medclinician CWN JB

update 7/30/2016 Later reports are that this bill was derailed by Democrats in the Senate. There are so many conflicting reports here - there is still no final news as to whether there are funds now to fight Zika as it is now locally transmitted in Southern Florida.







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Posted By: DeepThinker
Date Posted: May 21 2016 at 11:14am
Genetically modified mosquito scare me.    Am I just being paranoid?


Posted By: EdwinSm,
Date Posted: May 22 2016 at 10:39pm
Giggle translation (it seems something is lost on translation with conflicting claims in different posts)

"I have an innate and acquired immunity to infectious diseases. I infect the common man but 2-4 days sick or not sick. I propose to make a medicine from my kroai.Tehnologiyu immunoglobulin production it will be provided if necessary"

"I do not have the innate and acquired immunity to infectious diseases"

I wonder if he is in the Guinness Book of Records for the high volume of blood he sellsWink



Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: May 23 2016 at 2:40pm
Originally posted by EdwinSm, EdwinSm, wrote:

Giggle translation (it seems something is lost on translation with conflicting claims in different posts)

"I have an innate and acquired immunity to infectious diseases. I infect the common man but 2-4 days sick or not sick. I propose to make a medicine from my kroai.Tehnologiyu immunoglobulin production it will be provided if necessary"

"I do not have the innate and acquired immunity to infectious diseases"

I wonder if he is in the Guinness Book of Records for the high volume of blood he sellsWink



He may sell a lot of blood but it has nothing to do with this Zika thread.

Med



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Posted By: jacksdad
Date Posted: May 24 2016 at 2:52am
It's just Rishat. He's been posting about his "super immunity" to everything for years. To be honest, I'm just surprised he hasn't claimed to have the cure for Zika sooner.
Of course, you have to wonder how someone knows they're immune to a disease when it hasn't actually made it's way to their part of Russia yet...



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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: May 27 2016 at 6:15am
Originally posted by jacksdad jacksdad wrote:

It's just Rishat. He's been posting about his "super immunity" to everything for years. To be honest, I'm just surprised he hasn't claimed to have the cure for Zika sooner.
Of course, you have to wonder how someone knows they're immune to a disease when it hasn't actually made it's way to their part of Russia yet...



IC - Well somebody should get him to a lab, take a sample and run a sequence.  Then he will know for sure. If there are antibodies in there - the world  may need them.

А также кто должен получить его в лабораторной работе взять пробу и выполните последовательность. Затем он будет знать наверняка. Если имеются антитела есть в мире - может потребоваться их.

Medclinician - CWN - JB






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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: May 27 2016 at 6:18am


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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: June 01 2016 at 7:00am
Unbelievable how much spin we are seeing as Summer is here. Since massive money has been put up to fight Zika, still we are hearing of individual cases. Is this a diversion from the production of a chemical by Monsanto which could be causing the microcephaly and not the Zika Virus.

Consider this...

Medclinician CWN  JB
released May 30, 2016





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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: June 02 2016 at 7:23am


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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: June 03 2016 at 11:08am
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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: June 13 2016 at 6:19am
As the mainstream media is deluged with news coverage of the Orlando shooting, once again the ral news - that which will effect all of us in the U.S. is not even in the headlines.

Zika is spreading and as summer approaches and things start to heat up (it has not been that warm yet) it is very possible we will see a migration of the mosquitoes into colder areas as far north as Washington D.C. and New England and California with possibly outbreaks and children with Microcephaly. A pandemic of this nature could have a devastating effect on our children and lives.

It is spreading.

Medclinician - CWN - JB




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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: June 16 2016 at 2:23pm
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/17/health/hawaii-reports-baby-born-with-brain-damage-linked-to-zika-virus.html?_r=0 - http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/17/health/hawaii-reports-baby-born-with-brain-damage-linked-to-zika-virus.html?_r=0

The first case of brain damage linked to the http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/01/16/health/what-is-zika-virus.html - Zika virus within the United States was reported on Friday in Hawaii.

The Hawaii State Department of Health said that a baby born in an Oahu hospital with http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/symptoms/microcephaly/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier - microcephaly — an unusually small head and brain — had been infected with the http://www.nytimes.com/news-event/zika-virus - Zika virus , which is believed to have caused the same damage in thousands of babies in http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/brazil/index.html?inline=nyt-geo - Brazil in recent months. The presence of the virus was confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.


http://www.wsj.com/articles/six-babies-and-fetuses-in-u-s-had-birth-defects-tied-to-zika-1466101655 - http://www.wsj.com/articles/six-babies-and-fetuses-in-u-s-had-birth-defects-tied-to-zika-1466101655

The Zika virus has been tied to birth defects in the babies and fetuses of six women in the U.S. who were infected during their pregnancies, the Centers for disease control reported on Thursday.

Medclinician CWN jb


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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: June 23 2016 at 7:53am

New Zika vaccine begins testing.

Medclinician CWN JB




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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: July 30 2016 at 9:09am
Now we are in the trenches. The real battle against Zika has begun and we have the first local spread in the U.S. in Southern Florida.

What has become a bi-partisan nightmare during election year is trying to get billions of dollars in funding to fight this. The parties as well as the president who has threatened to veto a bill passed in the House are hurting the people by not getting on this and getting ready for what could be if only a national epidemic, a global Pandemic.

Get it together people. This is serious.

http://time.com/4406114/zika-funding-bill-fails-as-congress-is-unable-to-reach-compromise/ - http://time.com/4406114/zika-funding-bill-fails-as-congress-is-unable-to-reach-compromise/

Congress will not provide more than $1 billion to fight the spread of Zika in the U.S. this summer

After months of negotiation and national calls to action, Congress will not provide any money to fight the spread of Zika in the United States this summer. The final chance this summer to fund the White House’s February request evaporated in the form of a failed Thursday vote in the Senate.

Medclinician - CWN




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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: July 30 2016 at 9:16am
Zika spread from local Mosquitoes confirmed in Southern Florida



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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: July 30 2016 at 9:49am
When this was released there was great concern that Zika would begin spreading in the U.S. At that time there were no confirmed cases of infection by local mosquitoes. Now there are.

"If there is a single case of local infection in the U.S. - we have ourselves a crisis."



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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: July 31 2016 at 6:50am
http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/29/opinions/zika-hits-usa-garrett/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist%20 - http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/29/opinions/zika-hits-usa-garrett/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist

Skeptics will want scientists to capture infected mosquitoes, prove that they carry Zika and demonstrate that the http://www.miamiherald.com/news/health-care/article91047207.html - insects caused the four identified cases of the disease: This is nonsense. For more than a year, scientists with Brazil's premier health sciences institute, Fiocruz have collected mosquitoes, smashed them up in the lab and studied DNA in search of Zika virus genes -- only days ago, on July 22, were they finally able to http://memorias.ioc.fiocruz.br/issues/zika-fast-track/item/6169-0332_first-detection-of-natural-infection-of-aedes-aegypti-with-zika-virus-in-rio-de-janeiro-brazil - announce that of the 1,683 mosquitoes of various species captured in and around Rio during the city's huge epidemic fewer than three pools of aegypti (out of 198 pools of insects) contained Zika DNA.
If finding a virus-containing mosquito is the necessary proof for action, thousands of humans could get Zika disease before disease detectives identify the smoking guns. Florida's Gov. Scott acknowledged this, http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/30/health/zika-virus-florida-case.html?_r=1 - saying scientists are chasing mosquitoes , but tough public health action must go forward, regardless.

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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: July 31 2016 at 7:46am
Tracking the outbreaks of Zika - CDC
Medclinician - CWN - John Bell
Notice Florida at the top of the list, New York, Minnesota, (the south - coastal states) and Texas as well as Puerto Rico. It is interesting it is higher in Minnesota which does a lot of disease research at Madison. There appear to be only 4 states with no cases. The numbers here are probably much less than actual case. Zika has begun spreading in the U.S. and even those this report does not acknowledge local spread - Florida is probably not the only state with it.




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Posted By: CRS, DrPH
Date Posted: July 31 2016 at 9:23am
Man, if parents were freaked about autism in their babies, wait until we get a whole cohort of microcephalic infants in the USA!! 

I'd almost recommend the old "chicken pox party" philosophy of the 1950s, where folks deliberately acquired chicken pox in order to confer immunity.  Zika seems to be a generally mild disease in most people, and I don't think a vaccine is around the corner. 

Of course, there will be unforeseen consequences....is Zika immunity life-long?  Will there be long-term sequela?  Don't know, but there is enough history with these flavi-viruses (West Nile, Dengue etc.) that we should know. 

One national public health disaster, coming up....

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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: August 01 2016 at 2:28am
Originally posted by CRS, DrPH CRS, DrPH wrote:

Man, if parents were freaked about autism in their babies, wait until we get a whole cohort of microcephalic infants in the USA!! 

I'd almost recommend the old "chicken pox party" philosophy of the 1950s, where folks deliberately acquired chicken pox in order to confer immunity.  Zika seems to be a generally mild disease in most people, and I don't think a vaccine is around the corner. 

Of course, there will be unforeseen consequences....is Zika immunity life-long?  Will there be long-term sequela?  Don't know, but there is enough history with these flavi-viruses (West Nile, Dengue etc.) that we should know. 

One national public health disaster, coming up....

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Was talking to Dr. John Ray about this (who has been posting many years here) and he had commented if this gets in our children it could wipe us out. This is a very unusual scenario because even if it doesn't have a high fatality rate once we get an active mosquito population in the South with this and other areas - it will be tough to get rid of. Try to find mosquitoes that test positive is a needle in a haystack and you can a real outbreak i.e. Brazil where they only recently were able to confirm mosquitoes carrying the virus.

In addition to the problems with Zika we also are getting tougher mosquitoes which can thrive much further north. How far north - well Washington D.C. for one and against a background of snow and ice.

Chilling - I would say so. What you won't see on the mainstream news.

Medclinician




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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: August 02 2016 at 6:26am
Zika is spreading with more people infected locally in Southern Florida.

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Posted By: CRS, DrPH
Date Posted: August 02 2016 at 8:46pm
The flaviviruses seem to prefer specific mosquito vectors....West Nile prefers Culex pipiens, while Zika virus prefers Aedes eagypti.  

Please see this CDC map of ranges of mosquitoes of concern:

http://www.cdc.gov/zika/vector/range.html - http://www.cdc.gov/zika/vector/range.html

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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: August 05 2016 at 4:13pm
There are now 10 cases of confirmed Zika Virus infection in San Francisco. There had been one case just a few days ago and they said there was no health care emergency. So it would appear that Zika has spread to California and we will be seeing more of it.  The real problem is that Zika has been also confirmed to cause microencephaly - and now we are also seeing cases of that.

http://www.berkeleyside.com/2016/08/05/baby-with-zika-virus-may-have-been-born-in-berkeley/ - http://www.berkeleyside.com/2016/08/05/baby-with-zika-virus-may-have-been-born-in-berkeley/

Two children have been born in California with Zika virus-related microcephaly, according to officials, one of them in Alameda County. One of them may have been born at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Berkeley, according to media reports, although officials will not confirm this.

ABC7  http://abc7news.com/news/berkeley-baby-born-with-zika-related-microcephaly/1457607/ - reported Thursday , citing two unidentified sources, that one of the two babies was born at Alta Bates a few months ago.

The California Department of Public Health told Berkeleyside it has not reported or confirmed the locations of two Zika-related births of infants with birth defects in the state. According to state data, as of Friday, there have been 10 travel-related cases of Zika in Alameda County, seven in nearby Contra Costa County and 10 in San Francisco County.

The Alameda County Health Department confirmed Friday that the county “does have one Zika case.” Spokeswoman Sherri Willis said it would not provide any information about the location of the birth, the gender of the baby, the family or any other details about the case. Willis said this sort of information would never be released by the department.

“It’s unfortunate that any details about this case were released,” said Willis. “All we will confirm is that Alameda County has one case.”

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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: August 09 2016 at 9:23am
Since this is a breaking news story covered by ABC I am only posting a YouTube link here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePscUFvwntA - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePscUFvwntA

This is not the first death in Texas from Zika. It is the first infant death and there are far many more cases now in New York, California, and other states across the U.S. including Utah - a death there as well.

Medclinician


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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: August 09 2016 at 9:25am


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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: August 09 2016 at 9:31am
Zika is South Korea

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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: August 12 2016 at 11:34pm
Originally posted by Albert Albert wrote:

Rishat, your English has gotten a little better over the years,  but still makes no sense.   Besides, JD also has super immunity and we're all using his blood now.   Thumbs Up  Yahoo


It mystifies me why this is allowed on one of the most important threads on this site. This has nothing at all to do with the topic.  Meanwhile we have a disaster in Puerto Rico.  Could you give him his own thread to post this?

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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: August 12 2016 at 11:37pm
Zika is now literally swamping Puerto Rico. By the end of the years 25% of population will have it. Imagine these numbers in the U.S. Also we are getting more infections in Florida and some of them are outside what was the contained zone.

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Posted By: Albert
Date Posted: August 14 2016 at 9:27am
Hi Med, the posts have been removed.  

Rishat, you can only post in Off Topic forum from here on out, but not everywhere in that forum.  Maybe once.

Med, next time he posts on this thread or other ones, feel free to message mods and they will delete.

Best,
A


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Posted By: EdwinSm,
Date Posted: August 14 2016 at 9:45pm

Is the US doing enough to fight Zika?

The following 'opinion piece' of reporting contains the following background

Originally posted by BBC BBC wrote:

health officials say the Wynwood neighbourhood of Miami is so far the only place in the country where mosquitoes are transmitting the disease locally.

After the first case was reported in late July, at least 25 people have now contracted the virus in the area.

But on the political front there seems to be a lot of in-fighting, with the irony that that 'pro-life' stance of some is actually putting babies (both born and unborn) in danger.

Originally posted by BBC BBC wrote:

The Republican-led Congress left for its summer break in July without allocating any funding for Zika research and preparedness, despite President Barack Obama's request for $1.9bn (£1.3bn) to fight the virus in February.

The impasse was blamed on political wrangling over the role of abortion providers,....

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36992962" rel="nofollow - http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36992962




Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: August 16 2016 at 9:15am
Originally posted by Albert Albert wrote:

Hi Med, the posts have been removed.  

Rishat, you can only post in Off Topic forum from here on out, but not everywhere in that forum.  Maybe once.

Med, next time he posts on this thread or other ones, feel free to message mods and they will delete.

Best,
A


Thank you so much Albert. A lot is about to happen with Zika in the U.S. as you know.

Med


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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: August 16 2016 at 9:22am
In the interest of fairness I am putting this up - there was a full news conference with President Barack Obama talking about Zika but with a lot of other  material related to our problem with Isis. This video is edited and more focused. While not a big fan of Numero Uno in the U.S. and policies of the current administration - he is on target on this. There is a real need to put behind partisan politics and posturing and get billions of dollars into this before we have a major problem.



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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: August 19 2016 at 8:41am
Zika is now spreading outside of the initial cases, which were very few and contained, to Miami beach. Legislation is needed now - puttting partisan squabling aside - to contain this and find a vaccine - before it becomes a national health care disaster. There are now more than 400 confirmed cases in Florida.

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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: August 19 2016 at 9:06am
Zika in Palm Beach - the virus spreads

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbIQvc0m-Ns" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbIQvc0m-Ns


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Posted By: EdwinSm,
Date Posted: August 19 2016 at 9:55pm
And in Miami Beach

Originally posted by BBC BBC wrote:

Pregnant women have been warned to avoid the international tourist destination Miami Beach, amid cases of the Zika virus....

Health officials now say five people in Miami Beach have been infected. Florida health officials have been aggressively spraying pesticides there....

"We're in the midst of mosquito season and expect more Zika infections in the days and months to come," Tom Frieden from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Friday.

Florida has now had 36 cases of the disease, not counting those that were connected to travel outside the US.



http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37135833%20" rel="nofollow - http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37135833


Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: August 21 2016 at 3:57am


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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: August 22 2016 at 4:44pm


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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: August 23 2016 at 12:10am
Third new Zika zone south of downtown Miama. 37 cases of locally transmitted Zika.

Medclinician

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTPc8gTXvZA" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTPc8gTXvZA


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Posted By: Satori
Date Posted: August 24 2016 at 4:56pm
Microcephaly is the tip of the iceberg. Zika: 'Worst Brain Infections That Doctors Will Ever See'



http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/8/24/1563566/-Microcephaly-is-the-tip-of-the-iceberg-Zika-Worst-Brain-Infections-That-Doctors-Will-Ever-See


Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: August 29 2016 at 4:19pm
Outbreak in Singapore

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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: September 05 2016 at 6:31pm
http://nypost.com/2016/09/01/zika-virus-found-in-miami-beach-mosquitoes/" rel="nofollow - http://nypost.com/2016/09/01/zika-virus-found-in-miami-beach-mosquitoes/

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Authorities in Florida have found the Zika virus in trapped mosquitoes, the first time this has happened in the continental US.

Officials say 3 mosquitoes from Miami Beach have tested positive. The state agricultural commissioner calls the development disappointing, but not surprising.

The number of non-travel-related Zika infections has grown to 47 in Miami-Dade County since the first case was identified just over a month ago, but mosquito controllers had not been able to find any bugs with the virus.

The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services said 95 more trapped mosquitoes have tested negative since those three were found. Intensive trapping and testing continues.

Medclinician





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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: September 07 2016 at 11:12am


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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: September 07 2016 at 11:14am


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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: September 07 2016 at 11:20am
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/deadlocked-senate-once-again-fails-041500159.html%20" rel="nofollow - http://finance.yahoo.com/news/deadlocked-senate-once-again-fails-041500159.html

Congress returned from a seven-week vacation on Tuesday and found itself pretty much in the same outrageous spending deadlock it left behind in mid-July.

For the third time this summer, Senate Republicans and Democrats failed to agree on new $1.1 billion in funding to combat the spread of the dreaded Zika virus – a mosquito-borne and sexually transmittable disease that can cause serious birth defects if contracted by pregnant women.  

In all 50 US States, the Centers for Disease Control reports that http://www.cdc.gov/zika/geo/united-states.html" rel="nofollow - 35 cases have been locally acquired , while 2,686 people acquired Zika while traveling outside the country. Zika in US Territories (American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands) includes 14,059 locally acquired cases and 51 travel-associated cases.

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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: September 08 2016 at 8:15am
Republicans in Congress have refused to pass funding to combat the Zika virus so Rep. David Jolly (R-FL) tried to make the threat real for his colleagues on Wednesday by showing up on the House floor with 100 mosquitoes from Florida.

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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: September 09 2016 at 6:14am

Happy event. Did injection influenza vaccine , then made a complete blood count . Leukocyte 7.6 . This means that my body can develop antibodies to Zika


Posted By: Technophobe
Date Posted: September 09 2016 at 6:54am
So can everyone else's Rishat.  7.6 is firmly within the normal leukocyte count of:

  • Total leukocytes: 4.00-11.0 x 10 9/L
  • Neutrophils: 2.5–7.5 x 10 9/L
  • Lymphocytes: 1.5–3.5 x 10 9/L
  • Monocytes: 0.2–0.8 x 10 9/L
  • Eosinophils: 0.04-0.4 x 10 9/L
  • Basophils: 0.01-0.1 x 10 9/L.

                                                          That makes you absolutely normal/ordinary.  Sorry mate.


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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: September 09 2016 at 7:11am
But the thin leukocyte count after the injection of the vaccine against influenza


Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: September 09 2016 at 8:39am
http://www.local10.com/health/zika-virus/florida-health-officials-confirm-84-pregnant-women-test-positive-for-zika-virus-?cid=abcn_tco%20" rel="nofollow - http://www.local10.com/health/zika-virus/florida-health-officials-confirm-84-pregnant-women-test-positive-for-zika-virus-?cid=abcn_tco

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Florida health officials confirmed Thursday in their daily report that 84 pregnant women have tested positive for the Zika virus in the state.

Doctors who spoke at a "Zeroing in on Zika: From the Front Lines" forum Thursday said they have asked each woman to go public about their diagnosis and discuss their concerns, but only one has agreed to do so.

The University of Miami is taking a leading role in dealing with the Zika virus outbreak, launching the Zika Global Network.

Doctors said they expect to see an influx of Florida babies born to mothers who contracted the virus in about five or six months.

The forum came a day after doctors confirmed that a baby was born with microcephaly at Jackson Memorial Hospital.

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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: September 24 2016 at 2:37pm
How very different the real news is from what we hear on the main networks. Zika is spreading and very rapidly. With an additonal mosquito the Aedes Albopictus carrying it- the area it can infect in the U.S. and Europe increases covering more than half of the United States 38 states out of 50 - that is 76% of the the states in the U.S.
Before 2006, there were only 14 identified cases of Zika Virus. In 2014 is jumped to Brazil and South America. How effectively is the U.S. handling this and passing funding to protect Americans from Zika?

Not.
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The situation is far worse than we are being told and the chemical being sprayed to treat is more deadly than is being admitted. One thing for sure is the bees don't like it. It killed more than 3,000,000 of them.




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Posted By: Satori
Date Posted: September 29 2016 at 3:20pm

Utah Zika Case Shows Casual Physical Contact Can Spread The Virus


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/utah-zika-virus-physical-contact_us_57ed5e0fe4b024a52d2da2c4?section=&



Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: September 30 2016 at 8:49am
Originally posted by Satori Satori wrote:

Utah Zika Case Shows Casual Physical Contact Can Spread The Virus


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/utah-zika-virus-physical-contact_us_57ed5e0fe4b024a52d2da2c4?section=&



Good find!  This is big news.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/utah-zika-virus-physical-contact_us_57ed5e0fe4b024a52d2da2c4?section=&" rel="nofollow - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/utah-zika-virus-physical-contact_us_57ed5e0fe4b024a52d2da2c4?section=&

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Posted By: Satori
Date Posted: September 30 2016 at 9:34am

Researchers strengthen link between Zika and microcephaly


http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-zika-infection-microcephaly-20160915-snap-story.html



Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: September 30 2016 at 11:08am
The New England Journal of Medicine - Zika Epidemic

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1610613" rel="nofollow - http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1610613

Epidemic transmission of Zika virus (ZIKV) has rapidly occurred in the Americas, with most cases limited to mild or asymptomatic disease. http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1610613#ref1" rel="nofollow - 1,2 To date, nine deaths from ZIKV infection that were unrelated to the Guillain–Barré syndrome have been confirmed in adults. http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1610613#ref1" rel="nofollow - 1 Here, we report a rapidly progressive, fatal ZIKV infection acquired outside the United States and secondary local transmission in the absence of known risk factors for ZIKV infection.

Patient 1, a 73-year-old man who had emigrated to the United States from Mexico in 2003, was admitted to a hospital in Salt Lake City with hypotension and abdominal pain. Radiation therapy for stage IIB prostate cancer had been completed 1 month earlier, and he was receiving antiandrogen therapy but was otherwise not systemically immunocompromised. Eight days before admission, he had returned from a 3-week trip to the southwest coast of Mexico, where ZIKV transmission had been reported. He was well during his trip but reported being bitten by mosquitoes. After returning home, he reported having abdominal pain, pharyngitis, and fever, which was followed by conjunctivitis, nonbloody diarrhea, and myalgias.


Five days after Patient 1 died, Patient 2, a previously healthy 38-year-old man with no known coexisting illnesses who had visited Patient 1 in the hospital, reported having conjunctivitis, fevers, myalgia, and facial maculopapular rash. The rash became generalized but resolved within 7 days. On day 7 after the onset of symptoms, urinalysis was positive for ZIKV but serum was negative on PCR assay. Serum IgM antibody to ZIKV was positive. Patient 2 reported having assisted a nurse in repositioning Patient 1 in bed without using gloves. Patient 2 also reported having wiped Patient 1’s eyes during the hospitalization but reported having had no other overt contact with blood or other body fluids, including splashes or mucous membrane exposure. No health care workers who had contact with Patient 1 reported having symptomatic illness.

It is likely that Patient 2 acquired the infection from Patient 1, since Patient 2 had not traveled to an area in which ZIKV is endemic in more than 9 months and had not had sex with a partner who had traveled to such areas. Given the very high level of viremia in Patient 1, infectious levels of virus may have been present in sweat or tears, both of which Patient 2 contacted without gloves. Transmission of the infection through a mosquito bite appears to be unlikely, since aedes species that are known to transmit ZIKV have not been detected in the Salt Lake City area. http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1610613#ref4" rel="nofollow - 4 In addition, the second case occurred 7 to 10 days after contact with the index patient in the hospital, which implicates direct contact during hospitalization.

http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/09/30/495935879/zika-mystery-how-did-a-73-year-old-man-infect-his-son?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=news" rel="nofollow - http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/09/30/495935879/zika-mystery-how-did-a-73-year-old-man-infect-his-son?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=news



Four days after the patient was admitted to the hospital, he died. Five days later his 38-year-old son, who had helped care for him in the ward, also came down with Zika. The son hadn't recently traveled to areas with Zika, and mosquitoes that spread Zika aren't present in Utah so that ruled out transmission by mosquito.

According to the NEJM article, the son had helped a nurse to reposition his father in his bed and wiped his father's eyes. This raised the question: Could Zika also spread through sweat or tears?

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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: October 04 2016 at 5:11am

I am Russian but due to problems with the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, I can`t turn to them. Perhaps I have immunity to the virus Zika


Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: October 04 2016 at 6:02am
jacksdad wrote:

It's just Rishat. He sent his "super-immunity" to all, for many years. Honestly, I'm just surprised he did not claim to cure Zika before.
Of course, you have to wonder how someone knows that they are immune to the disease when it really did not do it the way to their part of Russia is still ...



IC - Well, someone has to get it to the lab, take a sample and run a sequence. Then he will know for sure. If there are antibodies in there - the world, you may need them.

And who should get it in the lab, take a sample and follow the sequence. Then he will know for sure. If there are antibodies in the world - you may need them.

Medclinician - CWN - JB
Almetyevsk But doctors refused to examine my immunity.


Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: October 07 2016 at 2:22pm
I ask you to help me as a disabled group 2 with two rare domestic incurable diseases.   

I am Russian but due to problems with the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, I can`t turn to them. Perhaps I have immunity to the virus Zika


Posted By: Technophobe
Date Posted: October 07 2016 at 3:53pm
Rishat, You seem to misunderstand the situation:

1. There is NOTHING particularly unusual in your immune status.  Testing you for any supposed "super-immunity" would be a waste of rescources.  Your good health record and your average leukocyte count puts you in the "potentially healthiest" category of about 5% of humanity.  To test the 350 million people so blessed would be impossibly expensive and probably pointless.  There are many avenues of research open to the vaccine searchers, which are both cheaper and carry better odds of success.

You can safely assume that the scientists looking for a vaccine will get along quite well without you.

2. For the VAST majority of people zika is a mild or symptomless illness, followed by immunity.  The problems zika causes are often because the disease goes unnoticed in many cases, and if this happens in pregnancy it can cause problems to the developing fetus.  It usually causes no problems to healthy adults.  Unless it is suffered in the right trimester of pregnancy it is harmless to the infant and, in those few who are damaged, the effects are teratogenic (the reading of the genetic code not the writing thereof - ie. not inheritable by grandchildren).

Consequently it would be more advisable for those women who want to get pregnant, to deliberately expose themselves to zika risk some months before getting pregnant and/or To avoid all risk factors religiously during pregnancy, than to use your blood, which would be of no use to them and might carry risks in itself.

I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news, Rishat.  I understand you want to help.  but, you are not able to help in the fight at all.  You are just getting in the way of discussion.


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His lips or pen are moving.


Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: October 10 2016 at 6:19am
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3828807/Hurricane-Matthew-kill-Zika-virus-torrential-rain-floods-wash-away-mosquito-breeding-sites.html" rel="nofollow - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3828807/Hurricane-Matthew-kill-Zika-virus-torrential-rain-floods-wash-away-mosquito-breeding-sites.html

It is surely sad for it to come to this, but Hurricane Matthew may stop the spread of Zika in Florida.

Hurricane Matthew may kill off Zika virus in Florida by washing away the breeding sites of mosquitoes which carry the disease.

More than 900 people across the state have contracted the disease across the state either through travel or local infection. 

Cases of mosquitoes carrying the disease were confirmed in Miami Beach earlier this year, sparking fears an epidemic could be imminent. 

The sudden onslaught of floods and torrential rain brought by Matthew over the weekend to Florida's east coast could however wipe out the threat.

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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: October 18 2016 at 12:10pm

Dangerous consequences of Zika virus: Guillain-Barré syndrome and microcephaly

To date, there is a hypothesis about the relationship Zika virus with Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS). In areas with documented viral epidemics (for example, in French Polynesia, and Brazil), there was an increased incidence of Guillain-Barre syndrome. GBS develops when a person's immune system attacks its own body, affecting the nervous system cells. This process may be initiated by bacterial or viral infections. The main symptoms are muscle weakness and tingling (paraesthesia), upper and lower extremities, but the danger of the disease in the defeat of the respiratory muscles. Therefore, even light forms of the syndrome in the acute phase of an urgent state because of the possible development of respiratory failure or cardiac arrhythmia.

But there is a disturbing consequence of the virus: mothers infected with them, nurture children with microcephaly. Microcephaly - a reduction in the size of the skull and brain in normal proportions, the rest of the body. This disease is accompanied by mental retardation, from imbecility to idiotii.U children born with the virus Zika developing deafness and blindness Some of syndromes of microcephaly are incompatible with life. That's why pregnant women should refrain from visiting the countries subject to the epidemic, and those who live there, to take strong measures to protect against insect bites.
Ahmetvaleev Rishat. Disabled child 2 oC for two internal incurable diseases. And since I'm sick, I propose to make a vaccine against Zika from my blood components (namely from imonoglubulina) previously infected me Zika virus. My immunity to influenza virus proved. I propose to look at the extract from the medical journal. What will Almetyevsk doctors if Ned Allah will Zika virus. My friend from Almetyevsk in mid-August he returned with his family from a vacation in domenikanah. And th September Zika virus found two tourists returning from Domenikan. I think that Zika virus for a long time in Almetyevsk. 70% of patients Zika virus occurs bessimtomno. Zika virus lёhkostyu to adapt to any temperature and lehko mutating. Almetyevsk I think doctors will not admit to Zika virus peredivalsya air. Or saying is true until the cock does not bite the man will not cross Subhan Allah

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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: October 24 2016 at 6:46am
Zika is not gone. It is still spreading considerably. In he incredible vacuum of real news as we watch the travesty of democracy i the U.S. campaigns for president, we aren't ever having accurate tracking of the flu season.

http://reliefweb.int/report/world/epidemiological-update-zika-virus-infection-20-october-2016" rel="nofollow - http://reliefweb.int/report/world/epidemiological-update-zika-virus-infection-20-october-2016

Central America

In Central America, Belize, Guatemala, and Panama have reported an increasing trend in cases. In the other countries of Central America, the trend continues to decrease. In Belize, a bimodal epidemic curve with peaks of suspected cases in EW 34 and EW 38 has been reported. In Guatemala, in the past three weeks an increase of suspected cases is observed, following what had been decrease in cases since EW 22. Similar to Guatemala, in Panama, a new increase of cases has been observed between EW 30 and EW 36. The following decrease in cases reported between EW 37 and EW 38 is subject to change by retrospective adjustments of the data.

In the United States of America, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) continues to work with Florida State health authorities to investigate new autochthonous cases of Zika virus. On 14 October 2016, the state of Florida reported Zika virus transmission in a new area within the county of Miami-Dade.

To date, 47 countries and territories in the Americas have confirmed autochthonous, vector-borne transmission of Zika virus disease since 2015.1 In addition, five countries in the Americas have reported sexually transmitted Zika cases.2

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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: November 04 2016 at 7:59am

In Singapore, the two cases detected Zika fever virus mutated from the strain that was previously distributed in Southeast Asia. Statement of the Ministry of Health has distributed, reports TASS.
See also:
Zika virus - a gold mine for producers of repellents and crooks
"Studies suggest that the virus was imported from South America, and has a regional origin", - said in a statement. In addition, the "strain of the virus has changed in comparison to how it was discovered in South-East Asia earlier," experts say.
At the same time today confirmed another 26 new cases of fever, so the total number of infected people during the week increased to 215 people.
For the first time Zika fever was discovered in 1947 in Uganda and, until recently, was considered harmless to humans.
Scientists from several countries suggest that Zika virus in pregnant women leads to various abnormalities in fetal development. The most serious of them is microcephaly, leading
dementia, problems with vision and hearing


Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: November 04 2016 at 1:41pm
Originally posted by Rishat Rishat wrote:


In Singapore, the two cases detected Zika fever virus mutated from the strain that was previously distributed in Southeast Asia. Statement of the Ministry of Health has distributed, reports TASS.
See also:
Zika virus - a gold mine for producers of repellents and crooks
"Studies suggest that the virus was imported from South America, and has a regional origin", - said in a statement. In addition, the "strain of the virus has changed in comparison to how it was discovered in South-East Asia earlier," experts say.
At the same time today confirmed another 26 new cases of fever, so the total number of infected people during the week increased to 215 people.
For the first time Zika fever was discovered in 1947 in Uganda and, until recently, was considered harmless to humans.
Scientists from several countries suggest that Zika virus in pregnant women leads to various abnormalities in fetal development. The most serious of them is microcephaly, leading
dementia, problems with vision and hearing


Great post and thank you for helping us track Zika.

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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: November 10 2016 at 7:29am
Recent studies have shown that mosquitoes Zika virus has the potential to cause serious health problems, including severe birth defects in humans. But the damaging effects Zeke could not come to an end: a new study shows that a mouse virus may also have unexpected negative results-and, possibly, long-lasting, effect on male fertility.

In a paper published in the journal Nature, the NIH-funded study, researchers found that Zika infections can persist for many weeks in the reproductive system of male mice [1]. As a result of the infection, the level of testosterone and other sex hormones falls sperm count falls, and in some animals, testicles drop to 1/10 of their normal size, possibly irreversibly. All this adds up to Zeke-infected mice - male, which is much less fertile than healthy, producing about a quarter as many viable offspring, as usual, when paired with female mice. While in mice, of course, not the people, the results underscore the urgent need for additional research to explore the full range of health effects Zika in men, women and children of both sexes


Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: November 12 2016 at 9:26am

As of November 9, 2016 (5 am EST)

  • Zika virus disease and Zika virus congenital infection are nationally notifiable conditions.
  • This update from the CDC Arboviral Disease Branch includes provisional data reported to ArboNET for January 01, 2015 – November 9, 2016.

US States

  • Locally acquired mosquito-borne cases reported: 139
  • Travel-associated cases reported: 4,035
  • Laboratory acquired cases reported:  1
  • Total: 4,175
    • Sexually transmitted: 34
    • Guillain-Barré syndrome: 13

US Territories

  • Locally acquired cases reported: 31,093
  • Travel-associated cases reported: 105
  • Total: 31,198*
    • Guillain-Barré syndrome: 46

*Sexually transmitted cases are not reported for US territories because with local transmission of Zika virus it is not possible to determine whether infection occurred due to mosquito-borne or sexual transmission.

comment : These certainly are not all the cases of Zika in Florida or in other areas. It should be noted we are talking 31,093 Locally acqured cases in U.S. Territories. This is an epidemic and so far I have not seen this much on any main stream news. Notice the dark blue states. Especially Texas, California, Florida, and New York.

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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: November 19 2016 at 11:26pm
ВОЗ объявила об окончании эпидемии вируса Зика.    Но вдруг вирус Зика мутирует и начнёт передаваться между людьми. Что мы будем делать?


Posted By: jacksdad
Date Posted: November 20 2016 at 5:49am
I ran Rishat's last post through an online translator so it can be included in the discussion.

"WHO declared an end to the epidemic Zika virus. But suddenly Zika virus
mutates and begins to be transmitted between humans. What do we do?"











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"Any community that fails to prepare, with the expectation that the federal government will come to the rescue, will be tragically wrong." Michael Leavitt, HHS Secretary.


Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: November 20 2016 at 8:08am
"WHO declared an end to the epidemic Zika virus. But suddenly Zika virus
mutates and begins to spread from person to person. What should we do?"


Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: November 28 2016 at 6:46am
ДОБАВЛЕНО в конце статьи.
У меня врождённый и приобретённый иммунитет к инфекционным заболеваниям . Заражаюсь как обычный человек, но болею 2-­4 дня или совсем не болею. Возраст 38 лет пол мужской
Предлагаю сделать вакцину против зика из моей крови. Но так я больной предлагаю сделать вакцину из компонентов моей крови. А имменно из иммуноглобулина. Мусульманин. В СВЯЩЕННОМ КОРАНЕ не сказано что нельзя делать вакцину из крови мусульманина в чрезвычайных ситуациях. Всевышний Аллах разрешит сделать вакцину из моей крови. Мусульманин. 3 раза в день принимаю тахарат в холодной водопроводной воде, а 2 раза в ледяной воде из колонки, ноги мою раз в день но в тёплой воде, а это микро закаливание. Врождённый иммунитет: болею не сахарным диабетом, диабетом другого типа. Много пью воды.      ПОМОГИТЕ мне доказать мой иммунитет . Мне осталось жить не более 4 лет , могу умереть через несколько часов. У меня заболевание Оливо понто церибральная дегенерация с отрофией мозжечка. Одно из проявлений этой болезни не контолируемое слюно выделениеи из за этого постоянно давлюсь при приёме пищи а при совокупности с не сахарным диабетом к концу дня слюна становится тугой и я давлюсь когда спокойно сижу. Это продолжается пока я не приму лекарство от не сахарного диабета. И ещё у меня шадкость походки и двоение в глазах. Так чтоя могу попасть под машину.             Но состояние здоровья постоянно ухудшается. И то что мне осталось жить 4 года это самая радужная перспектива. За неоднократное обращении в Министерство Здравоохранения мне поставили диагноз психически неуровновешаный. Иммунитет против гриппа доказан. riszhat@yandex.ru.



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