From Around The Globe!

To all of you from around the globe that stand with me in this fight to prevent the spread of the Zika virus, I thank you! I am extremely frustrated that warnings from over 200 researchers and medical professionals, has fallen on deaf ears. That the WHO Organizations statement about the Summer Games in Brazil is simply that “other people travel to infected areas for other reasons so”…… That this virus can have LITTLE TO NO SYMPOMS! That over 500,000 people from 200 countries could potentially travel to the HOTTEST BED OF THIS VIRUS. That not ONLY are pregnant woman and woman of childbearing years at risk traveling to infected areas, but they are at risk with those who bring the infection back to their homeland. That research on the various vector mosquitoes is far from complete. A copy of part of a research report from June 1, 2016 is as follows: Culex mosquitoes transmit several viruses related to Zika, and it would not be particularly surprising if both Culex and Aedes species could spread Zika, Ayres says. Gubler agrees that Culex is a plausible carrier. He notes that several Zika relatives spread by Culex mosquitoes, including the West Nile virus, target the nervous system, which Zika also seems to do. If Culex mosquitoes can transmit Zika virus, that will make slowing its spread even more difficult. C. quinquefasciatus is found as far north as Iowa and Indiana in the United States, although people there are protected by window screens and other factors. In Latin America, most vector control methods are targeted at A. aegypti. Those efforts have made barely a dent in curtailing spread of the Zika virus so far, notes Paul Reiter, an entomologist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. Targeting multiple vectors at once will only make the job harder. “If [C.] quinquefaciatis is a vector,” he says, “we can forget anything about mosquito control.” I am seriously beginning to wonder if politics and money are behind the poor decisions being made by WHO, IOC, CDC, ROC and the NOC! Once again, I ask all of you to take another moment of your time to reach out, by any means that you have, to get the word out. There is still time, but, time IS running out! Thank you so very much!