Thursday, January 28th, 2016
Stephan: The Zika virus causes such horrible damage to fetuses that it has led governments in Latin American to call for women to stop having babies! Functionally in countries where women have very little control over the occurrence of pregnancy because contraception is hard to get or too expensive, and marital rape is very prevalent that is impossible.
But beneath this story there is another one. What does the occurrence of potentially hundreds of thousands of brain damaged severely handicapped babies do to the abortion debate? And what would happen if the birth rate in countries where the Zika virus is prevalent sharply dropped off. Imagine a society where almost no one was born in 2016, 2017, and 2018, as governments are recommending.
And the virus is spreading to the U.S..
A transmission electron micrograph (TEM) shows the Zika virus, in an undated photo provided by the Centers For Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia.
Credit: Reuters/CDC/Cynthia Goldsmith
GENEVA/LONDON — The mosquito-borne Zika virus, which has been linked to brain damage in thousands of babies in Brazil, is likely to spread to all countries in the Americas except for Canada and Chile, the World Health Organization said on Monday.
Zika transmission has not yet been reported in the continental United States, although a woman who fell ill with the virus in Brazil later gave birth to a brain-damaged baby in Hawaii.
Brazil’s Health Ministry said in November that Zika was linked to a fetal deformation known as microcephaly, in which infants are born with smaller-than-usual brains.
Brazil has reported 3,893 suspected cases of microcephaly, the WHO said last Friday, over 30 times more than in any year since 2010 and equivalent to 1-2 percent of all newborns […]
Another engineered outbreak.