Are you ready for Zika?

[Balt]

Can't get my hands pregnant so no problem!

Same.

I really feel sympathy for those who are trying, though. I think one of my worst fears in life, even as someone who isn't likely to ever start a family, would be to have a child born with severe medical issues they could never recover from like microcephaly.

 

[Imp]

It might not be after the Olympics. I hear the village the athletes stay at is a giant fuck fest.

What are you saying? Young, egomaniacal athletes that ignored expert advice to avoid a hot bed of violence, pestilence, and unsanitary conditions on the verge of being a failed state would consent to unprotected sexual acts?

 

[TallBill]

Lol really? You think that's how Zika is going to become prominent in Germany?

 

[Imp]

Germany has the winter and the money. I'm not too worried -- no soy el doctoro.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Should be interesting to see what happens after or even during the Olympics. I wonder if some countries will actually choose to withdraw, not just because of zika but just the fact that it's going to be a dirty cesspool with all sorts of other diseases too. I sure as hell would not want to be an athlete competing in those waters. Kinda hard to withdraw though, it would probably be bad PR for that country as it would basically make you seem "chicken". I'm sure those athletes have been getting all sorts of vaccinations before heading there and probably on a rather strict diet for training and immune system purposes. The people at risk are probably more the spectators travelling from all over and then brining whatever stuff they catch back to their home countries.

Another nice thing about being in the north in a less populated area, it will be a while before it spreads here, if it even does. This one is not as bad as Ebola either. Ebola was some scary shit right there, it was easier to catch and symptoms took a long time to show up.

 

[Gunbuster]

So explain how Zika that has been around for something like 60 years is all of a sudden a mega alpha priority crisis causing microcephaly that was never seen before? oh wait everyone involved just got 1.1 billion from us taxpayers, I'm sure that has nothing to do with it... Can't wait for the downplayed oops, our science was wrong statement 8 months down the line.

 

[pete6032]

H1N1, SARS, West Nile, Zika...

 

[StrangerGuy]

So explain how Zika that has been around for something like 60 years is all of a sudden a mega alpha priority crisis causing microcephaly that was never seen before? oh wait everyone involved just got 1.1 billion from us taxpayers, I'm sure that has nothing to do with it... Can't wait for the downplayed oops, our science was wrong statement 8 months down the line.

Don't you know a relatively super rare new diseases means we can now ditch our routine measles vaccines because of stupid people?

 

[William Gaatjes]

So explain how Zika that has been around for something like 60 years is all of a sudden a mega alpha priority crisis causing microcephaly that was never seen before? oh wait everyone involved just got 1.1 billion from us taxpayers, I'm sure that has nothing to do with it... Can't wait for the downplayed oops, our science was wrong statement 8 months down the line.

It has been known since the 1940's. But is a lot older.
The virus is just a part of nature and can mutate just like any other virus when in the appropriate environment.

 

[Red Squirrel]

So explain how Zika that has been around for something like 60 years is all of a sudden a mega alpha priority crisis causing microcephaly that was never seen before? oh wait everyone involved just got 1.1 billion from us taxpayers, I'm sure that has nothing to do with it... Can't wait for the downplayed oops, our science was wrong statement 8 months down the line.

Something probably happened to release it and cause the outbreak, and it just so happens to be where the olympics are going to be. So it is kinda a big deal. Guessing the same thing happened with Ebola, it must have been dormant somewhere and then got released.

 

[Jodell88]

Some of you need a tin foil hat.

 

[KMFJD]

Something probably happened to release it and cause the outbreak, and it just so happens to be where the olympics are going to be. So it is kinda a big deal. Guessing the same thing happened with Ebola, it must have been dormant somewhere and then got released.

Some of you need a tin foil hat.

 

[William Gaatjes]

I will not be surprised if a few years from now they find out that zika stays latent/dorment in the body of people with a compromised immune system. And that it then there after will be correlated with some very strange auto immune diseases.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Some of you need a tin foil hat.

Not really a tin foil hat situation, it's just potential way it could spread, you can have a virus or bacteria living somewhere, and that place is disturbed, either naturally or through human contact, and then it releases it. Not really sure if that's what happened though, but something happened to make it come out and spread so suddenly out of nowhere. Ebola was especially bad. Not sure how they're doing with that now, they don't really talk about it much so guess they must have gotten it under control. Wonder if they ever found the actual cause, like where it came from so that it spreads so fast so suddenly, if it really is as old as some people say.

 

[Ns1]

n/m

 

[feralkid]

Not really a tin foil hat situation, it's just potential way it could spread, you can have a virus or bacteria living somewhere, and that place is disturbed, either naturally or through human contact, and then it releases it. Not really sure if that's what happened though, but something happened to make it come out and spread so suddenly out of nowhere. Ebola was especially bad. Not sure how they're doing with that now, they don't really talk about it much so guess they must have gotten it under control. Wonder if they ever found the actual cause, like where it came from so that it spreads so fast so suddenly, if it really is as old as some people say.

Maybe you should try the Google?

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[Sonikku]

I already have plans to nip my reproductive ability in the bud as it is so this is basically a non issue for me.

 

[Muse]

So...as an adult male who can no long sew my wild oats (snipped) outside of a 20% chance of a rash and a fever...I have no real reason to be worried, right?

I suppose snipped or no, you'll be able to pass it on to a woman with sex. It's an STD as well as mosquito vectored. Nasty. I hope they develop a vaccine soon.

I am not planning to attend the Olympics.

As you may have heard, a petition signed by some 150 professionals was recently presented to the International Olympic Committee calling for moving or cancelling the summer Olympics this year. The WHO responded that there's no danger of the disease propagating further by virtue of the Olympics. I'm thinking that reaction was politically motivated.

BTW, I think the word you were reaching for is "sow." Sewing is for seamstresses, etc.

I already have plans to nip my reproductive ability in the bud as it is so this is basically a non issue for me.

I think that since it's an STD it's an issue for anyone who engages in genital sex.

 

[Muse]

It has been known since the 1940's. But is a lot older.
The virus is just a part of nature and can mutate just like any other virus when in the appropriate environment.

Exactly. A recent mutation may explain the microcephaly connection.

Where I live, I don't encounter a lot of mosquitoes in recent years, but some, yes. I do hate mosquitoes. Were it up to me, they'd be wiped off the face of the earth. I don't know if that would have severe ecological repercussions. I'm sure it would have some. Of course, there's probably absolutely no way to rid the planet of mosquitoes without wiping out life on the planet, or most of it.

 

[Miramonti]

Zika in Florida

Four individuals in Miami-Dade and Broward counties have been infected with the Zika virus by local mosquitoes, Florida health officials said Friday.

These are the first known cases of the virus being transmitted by mosquitoes in the continental United States.


"While no mosquitoes trapped tested positive for the Zika virus, the department believes these cases were likely transmitted through infected mosquitoes in this area," according to a statement from the Florida Department of Health.

 

[JulesMaximus]

This is why abortion should be legal.

 

[Gunbuster]

"The exact risk remains unknown" but the scientists miraculously fast tracked studies that usually take years into a number of months after the hype machine blew up. Let me guess, they need a cut of that first billion in government funding or if they need an extra billion to continue cushy research for the next 20 years.

 

[Brainonska511]

"The exact risk remains unknown" but the scientists miraculously fast tracked studies that usually take years into a number of months after the hype machine blew up. Let me guess, they need a cut of that first billion in government funding or if they need an extra billion to continue cushy research for the next 20 years.

LOL. Research being "cushy". You're funny.

 

[clamum]

Quoted for posterity.

:awe:

Although, I was going on the assumption that the image in the OP was of the expected spread of the virus when I made that statement. Apparently, that's just the range of two species of mosquito that can carry the virus. Either way, it ain't gonna rape us all like the media might make it seem.

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

:awe:

Although, I was going on the assumption that the image in the OP was of the expected spread of the virus when I made that statement. Apparently, that's just the range of two species of mosquito that can carry the virus. Either way, it ain't gonna rape us all like the media might make it seem.

You welching already? I hope you eat a lot of peanuts the day before.