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Hawaii Not Equipped To Deal With Zika Virus - Justin - 01-31-2016
The numbers in here about the number of vector control employees is frankly terrifying. Pretty much everything else I read in here is, unfortunately, not that surprising.
http://www.civilbeat.com/2016/01/feds-say-hawaii-is-not-equipped-to-deal-with-a-zika-outbreak/?cbk=56aac9d8ec892
RE: Hawaii Not Equipped To Deal With Zika Virus - Lodestone - 01-31-2016
Agreed, and microcephaly is about as terrifying as birth defects get. A few days in the ER for dengue is bad, but a baby born with severe mental and physical handicaps is worse. Hawaiian Honeymoon? Nope.
RE: Hawaii Not Equipped To Deal With Zika Virus - Kapoho Joe - 01-31-2016
You could have just named this thread "Hawaii Not Equipped To Deal With ________"
RE: Hawaii Not Equipped To Deal With Zika Virus - Punatic007 - 02-01-2016
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/01/29/brazil-may-have-fewer-zika-related-microcephaly-cases-than-previously-reported/
Microcephaly still isn't conclusively linked to Zika. We may be the victims of just another sensationalistic media show. One third less cases? So much sensationalism and so little investigative reporting. Shame.
RE: Hawaii Not Equipped To Deal With Zika Virus - The_Saints - 02-02-2016
Confirmed Zika virus will transfer through sex.
Fortunately, I have been able to resist all of the mosquitoes' advances; for now...
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RE: Hawaii Not Equipped To Deal With Zika Virus - macuu222 - 02-02-2016
That was funny... LOL
RE: Hawaii Not Equipped To Deal With Zika Virus - pahoated - 02-03-2016
Infected human to human, so far, infected man into female. The virus stays active in the blood for over a week after illness. It is a big step when a virus can transfer from human to human, rather than just mosquito to human.
"Aloha also means goodbye. Aloha!"
RE: Hawaii Not Equipped To Deal With Zika Virus - terracore - 02-05-2016
India to the rescue:
https://www.good.is/articles/zika-virus-vaccine-brazil-india?utm_source=TSE&utm_medium=FB&utm_campaign=pd&utm_content=inf_10_81_2&tse_id=INF_17f330795778461db8b3f23c13c1c560
RE: Hawaii Not Equipped To Deal With Zika Virus - ironyak - 02-06-2016
NY Times has great story about the efforts to track the spread of Zika. It is incredible that Hawaii has dodged this bullet so far. Yeah, mosquito eradication, ASAP.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/07/health/zika-virus-brazil-how-it-spread-explained.html?_r=0
"For years, virus hunters on ProMed and other outbreak alert networks had been watching, fascinated, as Zika made long, slow and erratic progress eastward across the Pacific, island-hopping as American forces had done during World War II, albeit in reverse.
In 2007, it hit Yap Island, in Micronesia, just west of the Philippines and north of Australia. It could have come to Yap from anywhere in Asia.
In October 2013, the Zika virus raced through the many islands of French Polynesia, including Tahiti and Bora Bora. In early 2014, it bounced to the Cook Islands, just to the west, and New Caledonia, close to Australia.
It also leapt to Easter Island, home of the giant stone heads, its official arrival in the Western Hemisphere.
It is still island-hopping. American Samoa and Tonga are having outbreaks now.
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The first case of Zika infection detected in New York City was found in December 2013 — six months before the virus is thought to have reached Brazil — in a 48-year-old traveler who lives near Central Park but has asked to remain unidentified.
When he walked into Traveler’s Medical Service on Madison Avenue, he had just returned from a long trek through Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Easter Island and Hawaii, with a stopover in French Polynesia.
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“I took one look and said, ‘Dengue fever,’” she recalled in an interview last week. “He said, ‘I’m not so sure. I think it’s Zika.’”
RE: Hawaii Not Equipped To Deal With Zika Virus - Punatic007 - 02-06-2016
I'm not all that worried about Zika for Hawaii at the moment, seems the diseases connected with it are geographically dependent. Why? We have much more to understand about this virus. Microcephaly is only in one area of Brazil and it has not migrated. GBS is in 2 countries to my knowledge but not yet conclusively linked to Zika.
That said, I've got the mosquito population on my properties including rentals down to almost nothing. I let go of all plants associated with mosquito breeding and put out mosquito traps, the results are fabulous.