Officials: 1 in 4 people in Puerto Rico will have Zika by year's end, state of emergency declared
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[quote]]SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- The U.S. territory of Puerto Rico has reported 1,914 new Zika cases over the past week.
Health Secretary Ana Rius said Friday there are 10,690 cases altogether, including 1,035 involving pregnant women. Zika has been tied to severe birth defects.
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The newest statistics were released a day after the U.S. surgeon general visited Puerto Rico and said he expected 25 percent of people on the island will be infected by Zika by year's end.[/quote]
[url]http://www.cbsnews.com/news/zika-virus-spreads-in-puerto-rico/[/url]
[url]http://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/12/us/zika-puerto-rico/index.html[/url]
Additionally, it's been found that Zika can persist in a human for 6 months or more, reproducing itself in the male genital tract
[url]http://www.bbc.com/news/health-37057934[/url]
Does this qualify as being called an epidemic now?
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;50876794]Does this qualify as being called an epidemic now?[/QUOTE]
[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%E2%80%9316_Zika_virus_epidemic]yeah[/url]
[QUOTE=Perrine;50876809][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%E2%80%9316_Zika_virus_epidemic]yeah[/url][/QUOTE]
[quote]It can also be spread by the Aedes albopictus ("Asian tiger") mosquito, which is distributed as far north as the Great Lakes region in North America[/quote]
And here I thought I would be safe :suicide:
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;50876825]And here I thought I would be safe :suicide:[/QUOTE]
Aren't you safe in the sense that zika only affects non pregnant people like a common cold?
[quote]Because these mosquitoes feed on animals as well as people, they are less likely to spread Zika, dengue, chikungunya, West Nile and other diseases than Aedes aegypti.[/quote] Whelp nevermind, I mostly am safe [url]http://www.northjersey.com/news/mosquito-capable-of-carrying-zika-virus-enters-its-peak-season-in-n-j-1.1645012[/url]
[editline]13th August 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=Aztec;50876831]Aren't you safe in the sense that zika only affects non pregnancy people like a common cold?[/QUOTE]
In severe cases it can lead to death. It's unlikely, but at the end of the day I would rather be not sick at all rather than a mild cold.
25% of a country's population seems totally ridiculous, wouldn't that kind of epidemic have a massive impact on the next generation of Puerto Ricans considering how many pregnant women will fall into that 25%?
[QUOTE=srobins;50876844]25% of a country's population seems totally ridiculous, wouldn't that kind of epidemic have a massive impact on the next generation of Puerto Ricans considering how many pregnant women will fall into that 25%?[/QUOTE]
Keep in mind that the CDC website says that the sickness lasts like a week and those infected will likely be immune, so it's not like 25% of people there will be infected at the same time.
I don't know about abortion laws in Puerto Rico but hope fully they are prepared
[QUOTE=Aztec;50876851]Keep in mind that the CDC website says that the sickness lasts like a week and those infected will likely be immune, so it's not like 25% of people there will be infected at the same time.
I don't know about abortion laws in Puerto Rico but hope fully they are prepared[/QUOTE]
Abortion is only legal in Puerto Rico if the birth has a high chance of causing fatal complications.
[QUOTE=Perrine;50876809][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%E2%80%9316_Zika_virus_epidemic]yeah[/url][/QUOTE]
Can't wait for all of those "the microcephaly generation" documentaries to come out decades from now
freaks remake when
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