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CDC: Zika infections confirmed in 9 pregnant women in US
2016-02-27 05:23:56| Biotech - Topix.net
This 2006 photo provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a female Aedes aegypti mosquito in the process of acquiring a blood meal from a human host. On Friday, Feb. 26, 2015, the U.S. government said Zika infections have been confirmed in nine pregnant women in the United States.
Zika virus linked to stillbirth, other symptoms in Brazil
2016-02-27 05:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: In January, a pregnant Brazilian woman infected with the Zika virus had a stillborn baby who had signs of severe tissue swelling as well as central nervous system defects that caused near-complete loss of brain tissue. It is the first report to indicate a possible association of congenital Zika virus and damage to tissues outside the central nervous system, said Yale researchers. The researchers -- led by Albert Ko, M.D. at Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) and Dr. Antônio Raimundo de Almeida...
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Zika, microcephaly, and pesticides: half-truths, hysteria, and vested interests
2016-02-26 10:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecologist: Those who dare suggest that pesticides might be implicated in Brazil's microcephaly outbreak are being furiously attacked as irrational, nonsense-spouting 'conspiracy theorists', writes Claire Robinson. But the attackers have an uncanny ability to get their own facts in a twist. And among them are writers linked to industries with huge economic interests in the matter. I recently published an article on reports by the Argentine doctors' group, Physicians in the Crop-Sprayed Towns, and the Brazilian...
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Some experts contend Brazil is exaggerating Zika crisis
2016-02-26 04:21:28| Biotech - Topix.net
Brazilian and U.S. health workers from the United States' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention talk with a resident Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016, as they search for mothers and infants to recruit for a study aimed at determining whether the Zika virus is causing babies to be born with a birth defect affecting the brain in Joao Pessoa, Brazil. Their goal is to persuade about 100 mothers of infants recently born with the defect as well to enroll in the study.
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Zika Epidemic Offers Sanitation a Chance in Brazil
2016-02-26 03:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Three decades of dengue fever epidemic did not manage to awaken a sense of urgency in Brazil regarding the need for improving and expanding basic sanitation. But the recent surge in cases of microcephaly in newborns, associated with the Zika virus, apparently has. Both dengue and Zika are transmitted by the same vector, the Aedes aegypti mosquito. Back in the 1950s this kind of mosquito was supposedly eliminated in this country in a campaign against yellow fever. But it made a comeback two...
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