People can't vaccinate cause there isn't one, but if they could then would they? The spread of this virus is scary considering something similar would happen if people believed anti-vaxers more than they do now.
An indigenous flying insect that acts as the reservoir for a sexually transmissible virus that pretty much developmentally ruins your unborn child? That's the stuff of nightmares.
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I think it only affects less than 5 out of 100 births from infected mothers, but there's plenty of research underway.
Hey bro, I know you don't live as close to wynwood as I do, but even a 5% chance of "the worst case scenario" is bad to me if the mosquito that carries it is native to the area.
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I just wanted to clarify that apparently the vast majority of babies from Zika-infected mothers turn out fine, which is almost worse when you have to consider whether to get an abortion or roll the dice, especially if you're up against an abortion ban after 20 weeks.
It seems like there is always some flavor of disease in the media. Swine flu, avian flu, ebola, zika. I know it sounds all conspiracy, but there's some weird pattern about it.
Scaring people gets them watching which generates ad revenue.
We figured this out shortly after we ironed out movable type.
5% was like Ridill drop rate, and I never got one, so zika's probably nbd
Of course there's a vaccine for zika. it's called wiping out the fucking mosquitoes from the face of the earth. not like anything needs them, so lets just get rid of mosquitoes period and receive the buffs of itchproof and resist disease +10.
As someone who is a walking mosquito gourmet, I fully support getting rid of mosquitoes forever.
Apparently one-quarter of the Puerto Rican population is expected to contract Zika this year.
Over 30 people are dealing with the rare paralysis side effect already. This shit is fucked, they need to get GMO mosquitoes released there stat.
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/zik...s-more-n633781
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2...ience-animals/
TL;DR version--scientists don't know for certain if eradicating all mosquitoes would fuck up the food chain for other species like bats/lizards/aquatic animals and aren't ready to risk a genocide, even for damn mosquitoes.
Of course it'd affect the food chain, either from the lack of flying food for some species, or the explosion of another species from the lack of competition. Whether the change is beneficial in the long to humans is the question, but chances are it's better to just medicine away mosquito problems than purposefully making a species extinct.
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Genociding mosquitoes would be the death knell for bat populations around the world. They eat something like their body weight every night.
How the hell do bats eat, let alone catch, mosquitos? O_o
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You've never seen gnats before,have you? i can assure you, the bats will find plenty to eat still. i remember those little shits in north carolina during the evenings, its like they're a cloud formation of their own. they don't bite you or do anything except bump into you, but you can run a real risk of eating your own body weight in them if you breathe, so i think having bats focus on those instead will just be a bonus. (and yes, bats do eat them. you see quite a few bats swooping down through the clouds, not too far from your heads actually.)
Bats also eat things like moths (yay!), fruit, blood, or the plethora of other nocternal bugs depending on species. i don't think there's any that rely on mosquitoes entirely or even a major part of their diet.