US Gulf Coast unprepared for "the virus from hell"

Zika stands to infect 4 million Americans by the end of the year, and the number of children born with conditions related to the disease may one of the biggest impacts on child health care since HIV and AIDS in the 1990s.

That is the verdict drawn by Peter Hotez, the dean of Baylor College of Medicine's National School of Tropical Medicine, in a special communications article published online by JAMA Pediatrics. Hotez called Zika "the virus from hell," for what it does to the developing brains of unborn babies.

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/20/us-gulf-coast-unprepared-for-the-virus-from-hell.html

The bad news.

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First Zika vaccine to be tested in humans

(CNN)The first human trial of a Zika vaccine will begin soon, Inovio Pharmaceuticals said Monday.
Inovio, which is based in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, and GeneOne Life Science, which is based in Seoul, South Korea, worked together on the vaccine. They previously collaborated to create vaccines for Ebola and MERS, both of which are being tested.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/20/health/zika-vaccine-human-testing/index.html

The good news.

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Thanks Lynn I did not know about tularemia hope it does not get out of hand for you guys .

Do you or anybody know why plague has come back as I thought that was pretty much gone in country's like America . I haven't herd any outbreaks here yet so fingers crossed we wont either .

Being at the end of the world does have some advantages :-)

Glenn,

Plague has NOT 'come back'. It is endemic in the USA in various animals, especially in the Southwest. It never 'went away'.

What DID greatly decline is human cases, but those never entirely went away either.

Essentially, this is just more fear-mongering by the news media. Nothing to get all worked up over until people start coming down with plague in large numbers.

Thanks Lynn I did not know about tularemia hope it does not get out of hand for you guys .

Do you or anybody know why plague has come back as I thought that was pretty much gone in country's like America . I haven't herd any outbreaks here yet so fingers crossed we wont either .

Being at the end of the world does have some advantages :-)

Glenn,

Plague has NOT 'come back'. It is endemic in the USA in various animals, especially in the Southwest. It never 'went away'.

What DID greatly decline is human cases, but those never entirely went away either.

Essentially, this is just more fear-mongering by the news media. Nothing to get all worked up over until people start coming down with plague in large numbers.

Or pneumonic plague or septicemic plague gets reported, bubonic plague is treatable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvatic_plague is endemic in the US west, and it is tha same bacterium Yersinia pestis as humans get.

And MK is right, this is the once a year fear mongering to remind people who are now out and about on vacation to stay away from dead animals.

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How Bad is Zika for Babies? Study to Track 10,000 Pregnant Women

How much does Zika virus infection raise the risk of birth defects? Are women who have Zika symptoms more likely to have babies with birth defects than women who don't have symptoms?

U.S. and international researchers said Tuesday they're launching a large, organized study to answer these questions and others about Zika, which is spreading fast across the Americas. They're planning to follow 10,000 pregnant women from the very beginnings of pregnancy through to birth to see just how the virus affects their developing babies.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/zika-virus-outbreak/how-bad-zika-babies-study-track-10-000-pregnant-women-n596451

Thanks Stein.

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Measles confirmed in unvaccinated child attending Miami-Dade public school

A child who attended an unidentified public school in Miami-Dade County was confirmed to have contracted measles, the Florida Department of Health said on Tuesday.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/health-care/article85029332.html

Thanks KWSN and Gary, for information on plague.

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How Bad is Zika for Babies? Study to Track 10,000 Pregnant Women

How much does Zika virus infection raise the risk of birth defects? Are women who have Zika symptoms more likely to have babies with birth defects than women who don't have symptoms?

U.S. and international researchers said Tuesday they're launching a large, organized study to answer these questions and others about Zika, which is spreading fast across the Americas. They're planning to follow 10,000 pregnant women from the very beginnings of pregnancy through to birth to see just how the virus affects their developing babies.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/zika-virus-outbreak/how-bad-zika-babies-study-track-10-000-pregnant-women-n596451

Thanks Stein.

Seriously you guys have to start breeding the Ozzie mozzie now .

A vaccine would be great but rushing one onto the market is dangerous we have a answer all you need to do is start breeding them and I'm shore you can do that on a very large scale .

Import some mozzies from Australia and Brazil and the other country's and you will have plenty to breed the rest yourself .

In 1 season you will effectively wipe it out until a vaccine can be made that is safe and not rushed thereby killing people because it wasn't tested correctly .

With such a threat and it has been proven to work now , cut the red tape and implement the Ozzie Mozzie , I'm shore the scientist and Australia don't give a rats rarzoo about money this is a public world safety problem so won't cost you didlly squat to do it .

Write to your Local member and demand it and the CDC too .

EDIT: Remember Australia has a completely different view of Health Care than Your Government does If you ask the Australian Government will even pay for the bills all you have do is ask.

(it's why the current Gove is very worried about losing the election here )

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Zika is among reasons many Americans skipping Rio Olympics

RIO DE JANEIRO — The Olympic Games are still more than a month away, but the number of Americans expected to attend has plummeted over concerns about Brazil's insecurity, political instability and the ever-spreading Zika virus.

Original estimates had about 200,000 Americans expected to attend the Rio Games, but a senior U.S. official said that number is now closer to 100,000. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly on the issue.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2016/06/22/americans-rio-summer-games-zika-virus/86143768/


Darth Beaver, I agree with you.

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CDC panel recommends against using FluMist vaccine

(CNN)Flu vaccines are about to get more painful. A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory committee recommended on Wednesday that FluMist, the nasal spray influenza vaccine, should not be used during the upcoming flu season.
"To everyone's surprise and increasing consternation, this vaccine has performed quite poorly compared to the injectable vaccine," said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/22/health/cdc-flumist-nasal-spray-flu-vaccine/

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WHO to launch emergency yellow fever vaccination in Angola, Congo

The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday that it will launch emergency yellow fever vaccination campaigns along the border between Angola and Democratic Republic of Congo and in the Congolese capital Kinshasa next month.

The worst yellow fever outbreak in decades has killed about 345 people in Angola, while Congo declared an epidemic in Kinshasa and two other provinces on Monday after reporting 67 confirmed cases and more than 1,000 other suspected cases.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-congo-angola-yellowfever-idUSKCN0Z90XH

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People previously infected with dengue may be more vulnerable to Zika virus

New research points the way toward a potential vaccine against Zika, and may explain why the formerly mild virus exploded with such fury when it arrived in Brazil.

A pair of studies published Thursday focus on Zika's complex relationship with a related virus called dengue, a common illness in Latin America and the Caribbean that causes flu-like symptoms. Dengue is spread by the same mosquito species as Zika, and the two viruses are so similar that blood tests sometimes can't tell the two apart.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/06/23/people-previously-infected-dengue-may-more-vulnerable-zika-virus/86272008/

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CDC panel recommends against using FluMist vaccine

(CNN)Flu vaccines are about to get more painful. A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory committee recommended on Wednesday that FluMist, the nasal spray influenza vaccine, should not be used during the upcoming flu season.
"To everyone's surprise and increasing consternation, this vaccine has performed quite poorly compared to the injectable vaccine," said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist

This nasal vaccine probably works simular to the Ozzie Tammy Flu vaccine that you also breathe in .

You need to use it before you get the Flu not after the symptoms start to show http://www.tamiflu.com/taking-tamiflu#E7STbVVQLPEzhc68.97Here is the official Web site of it . It has the warnings and how and when to use said vaccine

One of the reasons it does not have a good record is people use it wrongly and after they have the flu when that won't work .

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CDC panel recommends against using FluMist vaccine

(CNN)Flu vaccines are about to get more painful. A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory committee recommended on Wednesday that FluMist, the nasal spray influenza vaccine, should not be used during the upcoming flu season.
"To everyone's surprise and increasing consternation, this vaccine has performed quite poorly compared to the injectable vaccine," said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist

This nasal vaccine probably works simular to the Ozzie Tammy Flu vaccine that you also breathe in .

You need to use it before you get the Flu not after the symptoms start to show http://www.tamiflu.com/taking-tamiflu#E7STbVVQLPEzhc68.97Here is the official Web site of it . It has the warnings and how and when to use said vaccine

One of the reasons it does not have a good record is people use it wrongly and after they have the flu when that won't work .

Glenn,

Tamiflu is NOT a vaccine. It is an antiviral drug. It is a treatment for people that have had flu symptoms for less than 2 days. It lessens the severity and duration of symptoms. It does NOT give you immunity.

FluMist is a vaccine, but is inhaled through the nose instead of being injected. I have had little confidence in it, and so I have always requested the injection vaccination instead. This announcement by the CDC does not surprise me in the least.

Furthermore, Tamiflu was invented by a US company (Gilead). Donald Rumsfeld was Chairman of Gilead when Tamiflu got approved, he left a couple of years later to be President Bush's (the younger) Secretary of Defense.

Interesting trivia. <grin> You REALLY wanna claim it?

Oh, and for the record... That dang mosquito you keep going on about... That process (SIT -- Sterile Insect Technique) was developed in the USA for control of screwworms. Work began in the 1930s in Texas by Bushland and Knipling and was tested in the early 1950s in Florida. Yawn...

Furthermore, Tamiflu was invented by a US company

not shore where I herd it was a Australian thing but it's not that good so you can claim it by all means :-)

Oh, and for the record... That dang mosquito you keep going on about... That process (SIT -- Sterile Insect Technique) was developed in the USA for control of screwworms. Work began in the 1930s in Texas by Bushland and Knipling and was tested in the early 1950s in Florida. Yawn...

Yawn ...why , it works .

You may have had some part in developing some part of the way it's do but you DIDN"T use it so we get the credit seeing as you lot sat on your fat arse and didn't use it better or put it to good use .....what have you been doing for the last 80 years then

Oh buy the way your closer to the Zika than we are so if you don't wish to use it as you can't make money out of it then your the one that will get sick.

And so it should be for trying to turn a buck on health care . Not surprising seeing as you do have institutional genocide with the policy's you do have with your healthcare system .

That is the reason your whining about a vaccine is it not , to make money out of it from telling everyone they need this vaccine !! Of course you could just get the Ozzie Mozzie and kill 2 birds with the one stone . Zika & Dengue ....na ya can't do that as ya wont make the mula will ya

Proof of the institutional genocide in your health system , you have a answer to the problem but still refuse to use it until you can continue to charge for a vaccine witch will end up on the immunisation roster for kids and make a new cash cow for the Drug company's while people will have to suffer in the mean time till said vaccine is developed .

must be good to have a Bible in your hand while that is going on real Christian is it not to profit from others ill health

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AHHH MK I knew I wasn't far off you have herd of Relenza have you not and that is Australian

http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/australia_innovates/?behaviour=view_article&Section_id=1030&article_id=10037

I knew you don't use it as a substitute for a Flu shot as well . I just thought of the wrong one your crappy ver.

https://www.drugs.com/relenza.html

So I will continue to Blow our Australian Horn loud Ozzie Ozzie Ozzie oy! oy! oy!

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You may have had some part in developing some part of the way it's do but you DIDN"T use it so we get the credit seeing as you lot sat on your fat arse and didn't use it better or put it to good use .....what have you been doing for the last 80 years then

Inventor of the technique (the single most original thought of the 20th century) :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_F._Knipling

Didn't use it????

List of uses over the last 65 years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sterile_insect_technique_trials

Many successful uses over the last 65 years, including in Australia (the Queensland fruit fly (Bactrocera tryoni)).

Oh buy the way your closer to the Zika than we are so if you don't wish to use it as you can't make money out of it then your the one that will get sick.

In Texas, we have bigger fish to fry than Zika...

Yes, Zika produces a rather bad neural tube defect (microcephaly) in some cases. No doubt about that...

But we have had for quite some time a problem down south near the Mexican border that produces a worse defect... Anencephaly.

http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/149/12/1119.long

Perhaps you should reign in your anti-USA venom. You are being quite silly with it.

Perhaps you should reign in your anti-USA venom. You are being quite silly with it.

I suspect he is just repeating Rupert Murdoch venom being foisted upon his country for the purpose of enriching Mr. Murdoch.

Sure shows how when a person selects a single source for news, no matter the invalidity, how much they can be controlled. But, Nazi propaganda got there before Mr. Murdoch, and if we go back farther the God of Abraham.

A similar item when recently Eye called me a new low for linking Al Jazeera, showing how he chooses to be kept under the control of his slave master.

Humanity, if it is to exist long term, must learn to reject this herding lest we all be sent over the cliff.

Sorry for the OT and further discussion should be in another thread.

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Happy for Sierra Leone.

Ebola-hit Sierra Leone gets Mecca all clear

Freetown - Saudi Arabia's government has allocated 800 places to Sierra Leone for hajj pilgrims, lifting a two-year ban imposed due to the Ebola crisis, officials said on Friday.

Saudi authorities in 2014 banned people from Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia - the three nations that bore the brunt of the outbreak.

http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/ebola-hit-sierra-leone-gets-mecca-all-clear-20160624

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19th case of measles identified in Arizona outbreak tied to Eloy Detention Center

Another case of the measles has been identified in Pinal County, bringing the state's total for the outbreak to 19, according to the Arizona Department of Health Services.

http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/pinal-breaking/2016/06/24/19th-case-measles-identified-arizona-outbreak-tied-eloy-detention-center/86344174/

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A yellow fever epidemic in Angola could turn into a global crisis


LUANDA, Angola — Almost 80 years after the yellow fever vaccine was created in a New York laboratory, a massive outbreak of the disease has killed hundreds of people in this country, where most were never immunized.

Now, the virus is jumping across borders into other nations whose populations are also largely unvaccinated. More than 3,000 suspected cases are in Angola and 1,000 in neighboring Congo, making this the biggest urban epidemic in decades. More than 400 people have died. There are growing concerns that Chinese workers — of whom there are thousands in Angola — will carry the virus to Asia, where nearly all of the rural poor are also unvaccinated.

http://www.columbian.com/news/2016/jun/27/a-yellow-fever-epidemic-in-angola-could-turn-into-a-global-crisis/

A yellow fever epidemic in Angola could turn into a global crisis, let's hope not.

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