Zika Virus is Basically Harmless

[maz]

Just another scam, probably for several different reasons.

http://www.moonofalabama.org/2016/10/the-zika-virus-is-harmless-it-does-not-cause-birth-defects-we-told-you-so.html

After nearly a year of causing hysteria, mass travel cancellations and unnecessary abortions it finally daunts to "journalists" and "experts"  that the Zika virus is harmless. It can cause a very minor flue - two days of a low fever and uncomfortable feeling for a quarter of those infected - that is all. It does not cause, as was claimed by sensationalists in the media and various self-serving "scientists", birth defects like microcephaly.

We told you so.

In February we wrote: The Zika Virus Is Harmless - Who Then Benefits From This Media Panic?.

The piece refereed to a Congressional Research Service report and various sound scientific papers. It concluded:

There is absolutely no sane reason for the scary headlines and the panic they cause.

The virus is harmless. It is possible, but seems for now very unlikely, that it affects some unborn children. There is absolutely no reason to be concerned about it.

The artificial media panic continued and huge amounts of money were poured into dangerous insecticides to kill mosquitoes (and important pollinators) that did not do any harm. Indeed, generous use of some of these insecticides likely were the very cause of a blip in microencephaly cases in northeastern Brazil.

Today the Washington Post finally admits that the Zika virus does not cause birth defects:


[T]o the great bewilderment of scientists, the epidemic has not produced the wave of fetal deformities so widely feared when the images of misshapen infants first emerged from Brazil.

Instead, Zika has left a puzzling and distinctly uneven pattern of damage across the Americas. According to the latest U.N. figures, of the 2,175 babies born in the past year with undersize heads or other congenital neurological damage linked to Zika, more than 75 percent have been clustered in a single region: northeastern Brazil.

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In June we added: Zika Virus Does Not Cause Birth Defects - Fighting It Probably
Does.

good article maz. This is the essence.

[maz]

good article maz. This is the essence.

Also, I'm not sure if you are familiar with the No Agenda show, but they basically broke down how all this Zika fearmongering by Obama to the Congress is just an attempt to recoup monies from other nations that pledged billions to fight ebola then reneged on the deal.

It will take some time to find their clip, so if I find it I will post it. I am sure they will cover it on their next show though.