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Posted: February 10 2016 at 5:34pm |
http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2987137/argentine_and_brazilian_doctors_suspect_mosquito_insecticide_as_cause_of_microcephaly.html
There is possibility that this, not Zika has been the cause of the outbreaks in Brazil and Venezuela. The New York Times also reported on 3rd February on the outcome of analyses by Brazil's Health Ministry: "Of the cases examined so far, 404 have been confirmed as having microcephaly. Only 17 of them tested positive for the Zika virus. But the government and many researchers say that number may be largely irrelevant, because their tests would find the presence of the virus in only a tiny percentage of cases." And last weekend, the most powerful indicator yet that the microcephaly may have another cause altogether was announced by Colombia's president, Juan Manuel Santos, as reported by the Washington Post. Colombian public health officials, stated Santos, have so far diagnosed 3,177 pregnant women with the Zika virus- but in no case had microcephaly been observed in the foetus. comment: I have been saying this for a week.Argentine doctors: it's the insecticide Now a new report has been published by the Argentine doctors' organisation, Physicians in the Crop-Sprayed Towns (PCST), [1] which not only challenges the theory that the Zika virus epidemic in Brazil is the cause of the increase in microcephaly among newborns, but proposes an alternative explanation. According to PCST, the Ministry failed to recognise that in the area where most sick people live, a chemical larvicide that produces malformations in mosquitoes was introduced into the drinking water supply in 2014. Medclinician |
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"Of
the cases examined so far, 404 have been confirmed as having
microcephaly. Only 17 of them tested positive for the Zika. But
the government and many researchers say that number may be largely
irrelevant, because their tests would find the presence of the virus in
only a tiny percentage of cases."
This would be correct as the immune system eventually responds eliminating it from the bloodstream forcing the virus to hide in the CNS and testes, hence blood would not test positive for Zika but the patient still remains infectious to others via their bodily fluids for many months. I also agree that the cause of Microcephaly is numerous and complex thats to say there appears to be many contributing factors. |
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I find that extremely likely. Insecticides have been linked to parkinsons, CJD (of patient one - Contagious from that point on), BSE (of bovine patient one - contagious from that point on) epilepsy, autism, cerebral dysplasia, autoimmune disorders and they often appear to target the neurological tissues.
Zica may do it itself as well. There may be multiple causes or combined ones.
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