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Brazil, Climate Change, Climate disruption, Microcephaly, Threat to human reproduction, Zika Virus
Video: Zika Virus: What you need to know
Zika Virus: Our Dystopian Climate Future
I’ve spent much of my life chronicling the ongoing tragedies stemming from global warming: the floods and droughts and storms, the failed harvests and forced migrations. But no single item on the list seems any more horrible than the emerging news from South America about the newly prominent Zika disease.
~ Bill McKibben, “The Zika virus foreshadows our dystopian climate future,” The Guardian, January 25, 2016
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Thanks for keeping us informed, Rosaliene. The necessity keeps building to slow the warming of the planet. The prospect of the diseases of the tropics moving north sounds like science fiction, but isn’t.
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Perhaps a time is coming when Canada will have to build a wall to prevent Americans from migrating northwards. Science fiction?
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Reblogged this on Guyanese Online.
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Thanks for the re-blog, Cyril. Enjoy the rest of your week 🙂
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A truly frightening climatic cultural Zika virus. No walls can protect us. No obeah. No voodoo. This is a real threat to our future.
~leonard dabydeen
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Leonard, the race is now on to develop a vaccine.
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So scary. I hope they succeed with creation of the genetically modified insects to replace the real ones.
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I’m not too happy about GM mosquitoes. Who knows what harm they can cause?
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Babies born with such a small brain, that they only have face and ears. Very sad, poor souls.
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Half of my comment is gone … I just want to add that GM mosquito is a topic of many articles right now. I just read one, and it sounded very trustworthy until I read about releasing ‘non-biting male mosquitoes’ that made me smile, because none of male mosquitoes ever bite, only females. We will have to wait and see, and try to avoid any conspiracy theories. I am only very sorry for the families who are already affected.
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I think they added the ‘non-biting’ part for people unfamiliar with the mosquito. It’s such a blessing that I now live in an area where I don’t have to deal with them on a daily basis. You can check out my blog post, “Dengue Fever Threatened My Son’s Life,” published in June 2014.
It can’t be easy for those mothers who give birth to a child with a small brain.
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Yes, the worst thing for a mother is to see her child suffer. I will read your post, thank you!
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