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Zika Outbreak Epicenter in Same Area Where GM Mosquitoes Were Released in 2015<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n
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(<\/b>ANTIMEDIA<\/b><\/a>)<\/b>\u00a0United States \u2014<\/i>\u00a0The World Health Organization announced it will\u00a0convene<\/a>\u00a0an Emergency Committee under International Health Regulations on Monday, February 1, concerning the Zika virus \u2018explosive\u2019 spread throughout the Americas. The virus reportedly has the potential to reach pandemic proportions \u2014 possibly around the globe. But understandingwhy<\/i>\u00a0this outbreak happened is vital to curbing it. As the WHO\u00a0statement<\/a>\u00a0said:\u201cA causal relationship between Zika virus infection and birth malformations and neurological syndromes \u2026 is strongly suspected. [These links] have rapidly changed the risk profile of Zika, from a mild threat to one of alarming proportions.<\/i><\/p>\n
\u201cWHO is deeply concerned about this rapidly evolving situation for 4 main reasons: the possible association of infection with birth malformations and neurological syndromes; the potential for further international spread given the wide geographical distribution of the mosquito vector; the lack of population immunity in newly affected areas; and the absence of vaccines, specific treatments, and rapid diagnostic tests [\u2026]<\/i><\/div>\n

\u201cThe level of concern is high, as is the level of uncertainty.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

Zika seemingly exploded out of nowhere. Though it was first discovered in 1947, cases only sporadically occurred throughout Africa and southern Asia. In 2007, the first case was reported in the Pacific. In 2013, a smattering of small outbreaks and individual cases were officially documented in Africa and the western Pacific. They also began showing up in the Americas. In May 2015, Brazil reported its first case of Zika virus \u2014 and the situation changed dramatically.<\/p>\n

Brazil is now\u00a0considered<\/a>\u00a0the epicenter of the Zika outbreak, which coincides with at least 4,000 reports of babies born with\u00a0microcephaly<\/a>\u00a0just since October.<\/p>\n

\"zika-microcephaly\"<\/a>When examining a rapidly expanding potential pandemic, it\u2019s necessary to leave no stone unturned so possible solutions, as well as future prevention, will be as effective as possible. In that vein, there was another significant development in 2015<\/p>\n

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Zika Outbreak Epicenter in Same Area Where GM Mosquitoes Were Released in 2015 (ANTIMEDIA)\u00a0United States \u2014\u00a0The World Health Organization announced it will\u00a0convene\u00a0an Emergency Committee under International Health Regulations on Monday, February 1, concerning the Zika virus \u2018explosive\u2019 spread throughout the Americas. The virus reportedly has the potential to reach pandemic proportions \u2014 possibly around the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8350,11494,12068,878,10233,12022],"class_list":["post-17107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-anti-media","tag-claire-bernish","tag-gm-mosquitoes","tag-who","tag-world-health-organization","tag-zika-virus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17107"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17109,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17107\/revisions\/17109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}