Zika: If you or your wife were expecting, would you avoid traveling to carribbean COMING MARCH?

[imported_tajmahal]

Not just no, but HELL NO. It's a matter of priorities.

 

[KMFJD]

Headed down to the Dominican Republic for a couple of months....am i going to die from Zika?

 

[HumblePie]

Wife is due in 2 weeks and I force her to coat herself in Off everyday and try not to let her outside much. She is hating me for every minute of it too, but fuck no am I taking the chance on her getting zika all throughout this pregnancy. We are in south Texas and while they claim it isn't here, I wasn't taking any chance because I know by the time they say "Ooops! it's here!" then it will be far too late.

No way in hell would I take my expecting wife to a trip anywhere near Zika areas. Just the dumbest thing in the world to do.

 

[smitbret]

Title says it all.

I wanna go on a cruise to somewhere warm coming spring. Wife isn't having it and doesn't want to go anywhere south of USA due to Zika virus.

1. Do you think that's unreasonable? I know media always over exaggerate things, but it only takes 1 virus to destroy our life. I think her assessment is pretty common. Any flights to central & south America have dropped like a brick. A single friend of mine will be taking advantage of this by flying everywhere there.

2. Where else can we go that's warm & tropical? Anywhere outside of Caribbean would be very very expensive from US.

1. Not only "NO!" but "F&*# NO!!!" I wouldn't even go to Florida if my wife was expecting. I would probably be hesitant to go anywhere in the Southeast.

2. I think your wife is underestimating how uncomfortably warm it would be in a tropical environment. I would bet that "Too Hot" is in the top five complaints of pregnant women.

 

[zinfamous]

Headed down to the Dominican Republic for a couple of months....am i going to die from Zika?

No.

But are you pregnant? If so, then your fetus might.

 

[blackangst1]

Nope. Wouldnt have to think twice about it.

 

[JM Aggie08]

OP, I tend to think you're pretty even-keeled, and often show signs of brilliance.

That said, have you lost your damn mind?

 

[master_shake_]

mosquitoes... i still can't figure out for the life of me why there isn't some kind of plan in place to eradicate these little fuckers?

think of all the diseases we've been given buy what amounts to a hypodermic needle flying around.

keeping them around is like playing darts in a drug lab.

 

[Scarpozzi]

I second the suggestion for Hawaii. You can do a Hawaiian cruise too and leave from San Diego or Mexico and island hop....or just fly to one of the islands and stay for a week. I like Kauai for how quiet it is...and I like Oahu (Waikiki) for the restaurants.

You could risk it because on the ship, you're safe from mosquitoes when you're off the coast. When travelling off the ship, you can always cover up and wear deet on exposed skin...don't be outside at dusk or in the evenings and you'll be somewhat limited.

The only problem is, when you consider the cost if she does get bit, it's just not worth it when you can hit the other ocean and limit the risk to virtually nothing....

 

[JM Aggie08]

I second the suggestion for Hawaii. You can do a Hawaiian cruise too and leave from San Diego or Mexico and island hop....or just fly to one of the islands and stay for a week. I like Kauai for how quiet it is...and I like Oahu (Waikiki) for the restaurants.

You could risk it because on the ship, you're safe from mosquitoes when you're off the coast. When travelling off the ship, you can always cover up and wear deet on exposed skin...don't be outside at dusk or in the evenings and you'll be somewhat limited.

The only problem is, when you consider the cost if she does get bit, it's just not worth it when you can hit the other ocean and limit the risk to virtually nothing....

For some reason, Hawaiian music fills me with undying rage.

 

[Exterous]

I've seen flights to ports in Europe for under $400 RT and their cruise prices seemed pretty comparable when I was looking. Lots of warm places there to visit

 

[Jumpem]

I wouldn't go anywhere outside of the Us while expecting.

 

[MongGrel]

For some reason, Hawaiian music fills me with undying rage.

Blast from the past.

And no, I would not take a pregnant wife into a known Zika infestation area.

 

[IronWing]

Zika got serious.

 

[zinfamous]

Zika got serious.

 

[Exterous]

Mother nature is finally responding to the over crowding issue

 

[edro]

Hell no. My wife took a Mexico work trip while pregnant right when the outbreak was hitting Mexico.
I was slightly worried the whole pregnancy. Head ended up being yuge, so everything was fine.

Still, no way in hell I would risk it now that it is more widespread.

Take an Alaskan cruise!

 

[TallBill]

Definitely no

 

[Red Squirrel]

Traveling while pregnant is just asking for trouble. What if she needs any kind of medical attention, or starts to have the baby? There are plenty of horror stories of that happening then it becomes a huge can of worms financially. Not to mention Zika, if that's even still around.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Wife + Pregnant != Vacation + Caribbean.

Honestly, it''s a pretty simple equation. The point simply being, don't screw yourself by pidgeonholing yourself into a forced abortion. At the end of the day, an abortion far otuweights screwing yourself over a lifetime.

 

[sdifox]

Are you fucking retarded? Who takes that kind of risk for a vacation? Go to Alaska if you really want a cruise.


honestly, just stay home.

 

[Aharami]

chances are your child will be be fine. But what if your wife gets bitten by a zika carrying mosquito and your child comes out looking like this?

Will you be able to forgive yourself? Will your wife? Ask yourself this.

 

[IAteYourMother]

I saw a talk in which Zika virus in mice seems to affect the internal architecture of the testes, reducing testosterone production, fertility, and testicular volume. D:

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[zinfamous]

I saw a talk in which Zika virus in mice seems to affect the internal architecture of the testes, reducing testosterone production, fertility, and testicular volume. D:

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Interesting. I saw a post on Anandtech yesterday that mentioned this study:

Zika got serious.

But seriously, scary shit. I work in a lab that studies sperm competition and, needless to say, we spend most of our time dealing with sperm development, testis epididymis, etc, and we started discussing this data after I saw Ironwing's post.

I wonder--did you catch the dosage they were injecting into mice and if they looked at multiple ages of individuals?

The way that this seems to be effecting non-regenerative tissue is, well, not good. A real Bummer, as someone might say.

 

[IAteYourMother]

Interesting. I saw a post on Anandtech yesterday that mentioned this study:





But seriously, scary shit. I work in a lab that studies sperm competition and, needless to say, we spend most of our time dealing with sperm development, testis epididymis, etc, and we started discussing this data after I saw Ironwing's post.

I wonder--did you catch the dosage they were injecting into mice and if they looked at multiple ages of individuals?

The way that this seems to be effecting non-regenerative tissue is, well, not good. A real Bummer, as someone might say.

It was work by Michael diamond from WashU. I think the stuff he showed was published very recently. The good news is that there seems to be pretty effective neutralizing antibodies, although who knows how easily Zika can escape it

EDIT: I missed that link... lol. Yep, that's exactly it. But he did show data on neutralizing antibodies as I mentioned which isn't referenced in the link above.