Puerto Rico: 'One in four will have Zika' by January

[Jaskalas]

Puerto Rico: 'One in four will have Zika' by January

A health expert has warned he expects one in four people in the US territory of Puerto Rico to be infected with the Zika virus before the year’s end.

The Caribbean island has reported 1,914 new cases of the disease in the last week, and there are said to be 10,690 cases there altogether.

Bonus, it might also be a persistent STD.

The Zika virus has been found in the sperm of an Italian man six months after his first symptoms, twice as long as in previously reported cases.

Doctors at the Spallanzani Institute for Infectious Diseases in Rome said it pointed to the possibility that the virus was reproducing itself in the male genital tract.

Meanwhile, Congress in unable to act.

June 28th, Senate Democrats on Tuesday blocked a federal spending bill that would have provided $1.1 billion to fight the mosquito-borne Zika virus, saying Republicans had sabotaged the legislation with politically charged provisions.

If it evolves into a full STD that could radically change the nature of the pandemic and leave fewer people "safe" in the long run. Especially women of child bearing age, whose pregnancies are most at risk. A Zika Vaccine might be in store for all of us in the next few years.

In the meantime, women may want to wait on having children...
And just let that statement sink in for a moment...

 

[sandorski]

Turning into a bizarre version of the Children of Men scenario.

 

[kage69]

Yeah this is getting crazy. I watched a blurb on the microcephaly yesterday, it was heartbreaking. We need to go Panama 1906 on this problem, stat.

Don't just spray on bug repellent people, hose your entire property.

 

[Paratus]

Well in slightly less apocalyptic news the Zika vaccine is showing promising if preliminary results.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/zi...king-results-early-zika-vaccine-trial-n623016

Three experimental vaccines being developed by researchers at Harvard's Beth Israel Hospital and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research had already shown promise in mice — but monkeys are a much better model of how the medicines will work in humans.

All three of the vaccines were found to be safe and protected the monkeys against infection with the virus, according to the report published in Science.

 

[JSt0rm]

and the republicans wont fund the zika thing because they dont want plan parenthood to be funded to fight it.

 

[JSt0rm]

this shit is sexually transmitted. Welcome to the new aids. gonna have to update my word: gonasyphaherpalaids

 

[Capt Caveman]

With Congress Deadlocked, White House Diverts Funds to Fight Zika

Thanks Obama!

 

[HomerJS]

and the republicans wont fund the zika thing because they dont want plan parenthood to be funded to fight it.

And Marco Rubio says women should be forced to carry Zika infected fetuses to term

 

[sandorski]

And Marco Rubio says women should be forced to carry Zika infected fetuses to term

Could be the Evolution of the GOP Voter is happening.

 

[pcgeek11]

This is why every bill should be a stand alone with No Attachments.

Too much stupid in Washington DC.

 

[Jaskalas]

As i understand it, a Vaccine does not cure those already infected.
How far out is mass production? 6 months, a year? More?
Untold millions will carry Zika by then.

And infected parents would pass it on to any children they conceive?

This is why ever bill should be a stand alone with No Attachments.

I agree there should be a clean bill for action of Zika.

 

[Aegeon]

Untold millions will carry Zika by then.

And infected parents would pass it on to any children they conceive?

The evidence is Zika is not something permanently carried, but only temporarily is in the body. While it appears in some cases its detectable after 6 months, its unclear if the quantity in the body by then is enough to infect a fetus. The key is there is every reason to believe after say a year a women is no longer at risk of transmitting the virus to the fetus, and that person should be immune to reinfection. (This by no means does not make Zika a serious health crisis though.)

I certainly think Congress should have passed a clean bill well before now.

 

[JSt0rm]

oh well. Death will come. Hail Satan.

 

[Jaskalas]

Apparently Zika is no picnic for Adults either.

Zika virus may cause long-term memory damage

...a new study suggests that Zika can also infect the brain cells of adults...

 

[SMOGZINN]

As i understand it, a Vaccine does not cure those already infected.

Vaccines in general do not cure, they help build your immune system to fight it. They can not help people that are already infected.

How far out is mass production? 6 months, a year? More?

We are not even up to human testing. 3 - 5 years at the earliest, probably more like 5-7 for mass production.

Untold millions will carry Zika by then.

Untold millions are already infected. You mean untold millions of (white) Americans.

 

[Thebobo]

Zika Seems to Thrive in the Vagina

It was just last month that the first case of a woman spreading Zika sexually to her male partner was documented, and around the same time that a study found the virus in a woman’s cervical mucus 11 days after infection. Before that, most of the talk about sexual transmission of the normally mosquito-borne virus focused on semen, where Zika can survive for a long time. (A recent report puts it at up to six months.)

Shit is getting real.

 

[OutHouse]

this shit is sexually transmitted. Welcome to the new aids. gonna have to update my word: gonasyphaherpalaids

ummm no.

Zika virus usually remains in the blood of an infected person for about a week. See your doctor or other healthcare provider if you develop symptoms and you live in or have recently traveled to an area with Zika. Your doctor or other healthcare provider may order blood tests to look for Zika or other similar viruses like dengue or chikungunya. Once a person has been infected, he or she is likely to be protected from future infections.

http://www.cdc.gov/zika/symptoms/symptoms.html

 

[Jaskalas]

So the difference is "potentially infectious"... and the person carrying it does not remain ill.
Seems to be a league below what we traditionally call a STD.

 

[JSt0rm]

So the difference is "potentially infectious"... and the person carrying it does not remain ill.
Seems to be a league below what we traditionally call a STD.

its literally a disease that can be transmitted sexually. In what right wing echo chamber is that not considered a sexual transmitted disease?

 

[Jaskalas]

its literally a disease that can be transmitted sexually. In what right wing echo chamber is that not considered a sexual transmitted disease?

When I think of HIV, or HepC... those are life long infections that cannot be cured, that will always be transmitted. Each time it's spread is a new persistent / permanent case of infection. Zika, while potentially infectious, isn't in the same league as those. A person will typically recover, and be protected from future infection. The issue here is it appears to be infectious for a period of time after the initial infection.

I initially wondered if it was a permanent infectious state... but that may not be the case.

 

[JSt0rm]

there are diseases that arent life long issues that are also transmitted sexually. STD isnt only hepC and hiv.