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Blame Zika on climate change
2016-02-23 08:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: On Feb. 1, the World Health Organization declared the spread of Zika virus across Latin America a public health emergency of global concern. Zika is a mosquito-borne virus related to the dengue and yellow fever viruses. In most cases, infection by Zika has no symptoms, which means the disease is usually not diagnosed. Only 20 percent of Zika cases are accompanied by symptoms such as fever and rash. The disease, which originated in Brazil, has spread to almost 30 other countries and territories,...
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Seven Facts About Zika Virus That'll Keep You Up At Night
2016-02-23 07:12:03| Paper - Topix.net
United Tech says combination with Honeywell not feasible United Technologies has staggered through a tumultuous 24 months that included the abrupt departure of its former CEO in 2014. Shares of Honeywell , which had risen 2.5% over the past year through Friday, fell 1.9% Monday.
CDC team kicks off Zika study in Brazil focused on Zika
2016-02-22 21:11:26| Biotech - Topix.net
Dr. Erin Staples from the United States' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention speaks before members of Brazil's Health Ministry and the Paraiba state's health secretariat in Joao Pessoa, Brazil, Monday, Feb. 22, 2016. A 16-member team of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is starting work on a "case-control" study aimed at determining whether the Zika virus really does cause babies to be born with the devastating birth defect microcephaly, as Brazilian researchers strongly suspect.
Colombia reports 37000 Zika cases, 6300 pregnant women
2016-02-21 06:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Advocate: Other common symptoms include muscle pain and headache. For example, when the researchers allowed the mosquitoes to feed on human volunteers with a Dengue virus infection, they found that the superinfected mosquitoes had fewer dengue viruses in their salivary glands, suggesting that they might be less likely to transmit the infection to their next human victims. As hypothesized, dengue virus replication in super-infected mosquitos was blocked at higher rates versus mosquitos carrying only a...
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In Zika Epidemic, Warning Climate Change
2016-02-21 03:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The global public health emergency involving deformed babies emerged in 2015, the hottest year in the historical record, with an outbreak in Brazil of a disease transmitted by heat-loving mosquitoes. Can that be a coincidence? Scientists say it will take them years to figure that out, and pointed to other factors that may have played a larger role in starting the crisis. But these same experts added that the Zika epidemic, as well as the related spread of a disease called dengue that is sickening...
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