Zika virus: More than 3,100 pregnant women in Colombia are infected, President says
Source: ABC News Australia
More than 3,100 pregnant Colombian women are infected with the mosquito-borne Zika virus, according to President Juan Manuel Santos, as the disease continues its rapid spread across the Americas.
In Colombia, there are so far no recorded cases of Zika-linked microcephaly, which prevents fetus' brains from developing properly, but there are 25,645 people infected with the disease, Mr Santos said.
Among them are 3,177 pregnant women.
"The projection is that we could end up having 600,000 cases," Mr Santos said, adding there could be up to 1,000 cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome a rare but serious condition that can cause paralysis and which some governments have linked to Zika infection.
Read more: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-07/zika-virus-in-colombia-infecting-more-than-3000-pregnant-women/7146390
dembotoz
(16,808 posts)when the disaster goes full term
Warpy
(111,270 posts)and will go to heaven, so Mother Rome is pleased. She doesn't care about the suffering of their mothers, she doesn't consider them to be quite human so they can be disregarded completely.
Skittles
(153,169 posts)they're pro-birth, not pro-life
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)they do now, and have done for decades in the face of HIV/AIDS and their ignorant denial of condoms to their followers even in places where AIDS is the number one cause of death. Over 100,000 people a month die from this in Africa, there are countless AIDS orphans on the continent. Uganda is 44% Roman Catholic, 7.2% HIV infected, has over 60,000 annual deaths out of population a fraction of the US and Uganda alone has over 650,000 AIDS orphans. In the face of such horrible facts, Francis comes to our Congress to express his 'concerns about threats to the family' but he does not mean AIDS or orphans or dead parents he means people who want to start committed families. And people on DU cheer for him, when they should be standing up for Africa.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Where are air, soil and water test results from the households where babies with birth defects were born? Most are very poor people.
Sure zika virus is a health hazard and a vaccine should be developed, but mosquito-borne diseases have been a problem for decades.
lark
(23,105 posts)I believe the microcephaly (sp?) isn't limited to Brazil, it's jut hit there hardest so far.
Mika
(17,751 posts)Pandora's Box: How GM Mosquitos Could Have Caused the Zika Virus Outbreak
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016143380
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)testing their environment for contaminates. And zeka virus seems like its been out there for quite a while although the recent, GM Mosquitos are an additional concern.
Mika
(17,751 posts)Bill Gates pop control at work?