ZIKA virus Olympics at Rio in 2016

vic19 · 1 ZIKA virus Olympics at Rio in 2016 Thu Feb 04, 2016 7:40 pm

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It is sad to see the consequence of this virus spred by the Mosquitos in Latin America specially Brazil.

Unfortunately this years Olympics is shedule to takes place in rio Brazil.

How will the world nation re act in send their precious sportsmen / sports women and some strong supporters and family members to the function?

Also it is well known that players get together during this time free with each other hence high danger of this vitas sexually getting transmitted to all over the world.

Should not the Olympic committee change the venue now urgently and ban the players from Latin America to protect the other countries from spreading this virus?

Will this become a world pandemic and affect the whole world?

Think for a minute if this decease spread to Asian African countries like India, Bangladesh and South Africa. The effect will be a huge disaster.

Let's hope WHO will act Very Urgently.

In the mean time our government should protect our borders at the airport by checking the arrival from Latin America.

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Chinwi · 2 Re: ZIKA virus Olympics at Rio in 2016 Fri Feb 05, 2016 2:16 pm

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ZIKA is said to be the first sexually transmittable insect-borne disease.
In other words first ever mosquito-borne STD virus.

This is a new development. If AIDS virus learn (or mutate) this from ZIKA !
Fortunately this is not possible for the time being. But, we do not know about the experiments done in labs.

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ZIKA virus (ZIKV) is carried by Aedes aegypti dengue fever mosquito (yellow fever mosquito) It can be recognized by white markings on its legs and a marking in the form of a lyre on the upper surface of the thorax.

The STD story began with wife of Colorado-based malaria researcher, Brian Foy. Dr. Foy contracted the disease while conducting fieldwork in rural Senegal. After returning home from his trip, Foy felt feverish and tired, had swollen joints and a splitting headache. Nine days later, his wife Joy, who had not accompanied him to Senegal, also fell ill and presented similar symptoms. Their four children remained healthy.

Foy and his PhD student, Kevin Kobylinsky released a study in the May 2011 journal of Emerging Infectious Diseases providing evidence for what may be the first case of sexual transmission of an insect-borne disease.
Aedes mosquito is not living in northern Colorado.

ZIKA Owner

Patent holder of ZIKA is non other than infamous Rockefeller Foundation.

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First found in 1947.
As per PBS The world knew about Zika virus since at least 1947, when researchers from the Rockefeller Foundation put a rhesus monkey in a cage in the middle of Zika Forest of Uganda. The team was conducting surveillance for yellow fever.

GM Mosquitoes & ZIKA outbreak

No evidence of human infection with ZIKV reported until twenty years later when it was isolated from human patients in Nigeria and later from some other parts of Africa.

In the past decade, however, ZIKV spread beyond its usual geographic boundaries, causing mild outbreaks in some of the most remote regions of the world.

The newest and biggest outbreak in 2016 may have a link with millions of genetically modified mosquitoes that have been released in these areas.

Millions of of Genetically Modified Mosquitoes had been released in Brazil in 2015.
Dengue fever is spread by the same Aedes mosquitoes which spread the Zika virus.
By July 2015, shortly after the GM mosquitoes were first released into the wild in Juazeiro, Brazil, Oxitec proudly announced they had “successfully controlled the Aedes aegypti mosquito that spreads dengue fever, chikungunya and zika virus, by reducing the target population by more than 90%.

Those genetically-modified mosquitoes work to control wild, potentially disease-carrying populations in a very specific manner. Only the male modified Aedes mosquitoes are supposed to be released into the wild — as they will mate with their unaltered female counterparts. Once offspring are produced, the modified, scientific facet is supposed to ‘kick in’ and kill that larvae before it reaches breeding age — if tetracycline is not present during its development. Hence no threat of self breeding as a new GM insect. Scientists do this by programming the DNA of larvae to kill it when tetracycline in not in the environment.

But there is a problem.
Vast use of antibiotics based on tetracycline by humans are released to the environment and now they suspect thousands of genetically modified larvae has grown into adult mosquitoes and are breeding a new kind of mosquito type which has the genetics to carry and spread STD and Insect borne ZIKV better than their parents.

Brazil is now considered the epicenter of the Zika outbreak, which coincides with at least 4,000 reports of babies born with microcephaly just since October.

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micro - small
cephalic - head

vic19 · 3 Re: ZIKA virus Olympics at Rio in 2016 Fri Feb 05, 2016 11:27 pm

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Hi Chinwi,

What a fabulous article for all. Appreciate your time and effort in compiling these information which I am sure will be very informative for all forum members world over.

To add a little bit more ;

the western country Spain is in high danger category mainly due to many Latin American countries speak Spanish as their language and has roots to Spain.

Then throught Spain there is high possibilities of the virus passing on to other western countries.

I was told that when the mosgitoes bits an infected person (a) and takes the blood and then bits another person(b) and deposited the previous infected person (a)blood to the person(b). And this is how the mosgitoes are spreading this decease as being deadly a carrier.

The effects are smaller brains and smaller heads to the new born babies hence the babies become autistic and under develop brain affecting their growth and well being in the future.

Already it is reported to have infected over 4 million people so far

Hope the injection for the virus be found ASAP.

Thanks