when the medical community advocates using condoms to prevent transmission of the disease or conception of children who will be damaged irrevocably by the virus?

Will it be "God's will" that women become pregnant and give birth to severely disabled children?

That's one of those fancy rhetorical questions, isn't it?

I am already hearing health officials say that women should avoid getting pregnant, which is a bit of problem since it would involve using contraceptives, which places a Catholic woman (in predominantly Catholic South America) in the position of committing a mortal sin and being damned to Hell for all eternity should she die with such a sin unreconciled.

Now the disease can be transmitted sexually, which means a woman could get the disease and suffer the consequences even with a faithful spouse who just had the misfortune of being bitten by a mosquito.

I don't make the silly rules, I just point out their silliness.

This is horrible news.

For allowing Ted Cruz to hit the national stage

I live in Texas, and have for several decades. So I guess Cruz-bashing is the same as Texas-bashing?

This really sucks.

The mosquitoes are going to come, and multiply rapidly in the south. And it can be sexually transmitted. UGH

But good to know about it so quickly, so people can be warned.

... adding another underline for "Big gun, little ...." ...

and stop him from having sex

the "sexually transmitted" part of this. If I have sex with a person with a cold and I get a cold, is that now considered "sexually transmitted?"

For example: A cold virus is airborne and can be spread via a sneeze. Zika virus is not airborne and cannot.

It would appear they're saying Zika virus can be spread via the act of intercourse, which puts it into the category of other sexually transmitted diseases.

Here's a bit more on the topic when it was first discovered it was a possibility back in 2008.

one of those things that sort of jumps out at ya??????

If there's an alarm that something isn't right, that should be a big one.