This is actually very Not Good. The outbreak is so bad that the Brazilian Health Ministry has basically advised people to stop having babies in the affected zones. I don't think there's a vaccine, either, as the disease is relatively newly characterized and has just made the jump from Africa to the New World. Spraying pesticides, dumping stagnant water collectors and having folks stay inside dawn and dusk is their containment strategy.
And really, microcephaly is the very last thing Texas needs.
EDIT, Brazilian health ministry is who advised women not to get pregnant (if they have a choice), due to the extraordinary high incidence of microcephalic developmental deformity now, although it's getting bad in El Salvador now too.
This is actually very Not Good. The outbreak is so bad that the Brazilian Health Ministry has basically advised people to stop having babies in the affected zones. I don't think there's a vaccine, either, as the disease is relatively newly characterized and has just made the jump from Africa to the New World. Spraying pesticides, dumping stagnant water collectors and having folks stay inside dawn and dusk is their containment strategy.
And really, microcephaly is the very last thing Texas needs.
EDIT, Brazilian health ministry is who advised women not to get pregnant (if they have a choice), due to the extraordinary high incidence of microcephalic developmental deformity now, although it's getting bad in El Salvador now too.
All true. But good way to freak about furriners.
What's wrong with microcephaly?
Well, on you it looks good.
Couldn't they have given it some benign name like "TLDR virus"? Now everyone's going to have Zika panic.
"Oh my god, that chambermaid cleaning the bathroom probably has Zika virus! Zika! Zika! Zeeekah!!!1!"
"…health ministry is who advised women not to get pregnant (if they have a choice)…"
If only there were a means to do that, and public funding to support it…
Build the dang net!!1!