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RE: Hawaii Not Equipped To Deal With Zika Virus - pahoated - 02-07-2016
Colombia, 3 dead, over 20,500 infected, over 3,000 pregnant women
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/zika-virus-outbreak/fear-zika-impacts-daily-life-travel-u-s-latin-america-n512291
RE: Hawaii Not Equipped To Deal With Zika Virus - Guest - 02-09-2016
http://www.wnyc.org/story/in-brazil-a-race-to-solve-the-mysteries-of-zika-virus/
Recent article here about the fast spreading Zika virus, they really don't understand much about it right now,jmo. The zika and dengue combo could be just devastating to our island residents current living ways of life?. Should Hawaii halt travel? Maybe invest in good county water lines for all of big island (no more catchment living)?.
RE: Hawaii Not Equipped To Deal With Zika Virus - Kapoho Joe - 02-09-2016
quote:
Originally posted by gypsy69
Maybe invest in good county water lines for all of big island (no more catchment living)?.
You may say I'm a dreamer...
RE: Hawaii Not Equipped To Deal With Zika Virus - Midnight Rambler - 02-12-2016
quote:Not really. Hawaii just doesn't have lots of people living together in areas with lots of mosquitos, where there's an opportunity for the same mosquito to bite an infected person and then at least one uninfected person, which is what's required to transmit disease. Our cities have relatively few mosquitos and everyone has screens on their windows, and the rural areas with mosquitos have the people spread out relatively far apart.
Originally posted by gypsy69
The zika and dengue combo could be just devastating to our island residents current living ways of life?
Compare that to Brazil, with huge urban tenements that breed mosquitos in little spots of water and people have open windows; or Tahiti, where much of the population outside Papaete lives in small but relatively closely-settled villages in the narrow coastal strip. When chikungunya (which I worry about much more than Zika) got to Tahiti, almost the entire population of ~150,000 was infected with it after a year. The dengue outbreak here (vectored by the same mosquitos) has been going on for six months and there have only been 250 cases.
It's also worth mentioning that we have very little of the Aedes aegypti mosquito here. It's a much more effective vector because it prefers to live around people and in houses, whereas the one that's dominant here, Aedes albopictus, generally prefers forest and also bites birds and pigs.
RE: Hawaii Not Equipped To Deal With Zika Virus - HereOnThePrimalEdge - 02-15-2016
American Samoa announced they may have up to 205 cases of Zika Virus in the territory.
There are two Hawaiian Air flights using 767's between Honolulu and Pago Pago every week.
http://jezebel.com/american-samoa-suspects-it-may-have-over-200-cases-of-z-1759260034
"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." -Annie Dillard
RE: Hawaii Not Equipped To Deal With Zika Virus - Guest - 02-15-2016
Does any place on this island even test anyone who comes in sick possibly with the Zika virus? Also where does the test get sent too from here for examination or Zika confirmation?
Most people who get the Zika virus don't or won't experience symptoms worse than a common cold. Again most around these parts won't even go to the doctor to get tested, Even if they did test you at the urgent care in pahoa,jmo.
Does anyone know how the dengue tests are handled? Are the dengue tests taken, sent to the lab daily or weekly? Are the results from the lab sent back daily or weekly? The proposed mobile dengue testing sites within certain communities or subdivisions hopefully will be able to offer same day tests and results, maybe for Zika too?.
RE: Hawaii Not Equipped To Deal With Zika Virus - kalakoa - 02-15-2016
Apparently media campaigns urging people to "fix it yourself" are the new normal...
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/jamaica-fights-zika-virus-outbreak-reggae-infused-psa/story?id=36954684
RE: Hawaii Not Equipped To Deal With Zika Virus - HereOnThePrimalEdge - 02-27-2016
Good article in the New Yorker. I believe you can read this article (and up to six stories a month without a subscription).
The Zika virus is not the biggest problem we have.
Nor are GMO mosquitoes used to fight the disease.
Or Monsanto. Or the Gates Foundation.
It's conspiracy theories regarding the outbreak which impede attempts to fight the disease that are the greatest threat:
But conspiracy theories flow constantly across the Internet. An endless stream of anti-single-bullet theories seems to be a price we pay to have human knowledge at our fingertips. And conspiracy theories are part of American life.
At least one Zika conspiracy, by far the most damaging, may be hard to ignore. More than a third of the Americans surveyed in a poll, out this week, from the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Public Policy Center believe that genetically modified mosquitoes caused the spread of Zika. This is a particularly dangerous misapprehension, because, for now, controlling mosquitoes may be the only way we can hope to control Zika.
http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-dangerous-conspiracy-theories-about-the-zika-virus
"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." -Annie Dillard
RE: Hawaii Not Equipped To Deal With Zika Virus - kalakoa - 02-27-2016
It's the conspiracy theories surrounding the outbreak that may prevent or impede attempts to fight it
No, the problems will simply vanish if people just stop complaining about them.
RE: Hawaii Not Equipped To Deal With Zika Virus - MattKarma - 02-27-2016
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/microcephaly/basics/causes/con-20034823
"Exposure to drugs, alcohol or certain toxic chemicals in the womb."