Thursday, April 14, 2016

Zika

April 14, 2016
By Judy Stone

News about Zika keeps getting worse. (click here) First is growing evidence that Zika causes of the serious birth defect, microcephaly (abnormally small brain and skull) and severe mental retardation. The CDC just announced their analysis that concludes Zika is the cause of many recent microcephaly cases, with CDC Director Dr. Thomas R. Frieden declaring, “There is no longer any doubt that Zika causes microcephaly.” He added, “Never before in history has there been a situation where a bite from a mosquito can result in a devastating malformation.” Studies supporting this conclusion were just published in the New England Journal of Medicine....

Guillain-Barre (click here) 
acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, or ADEM (click here)
neurotropism (click here)
encephalitis (brain inflammation) (click here)
myelitis (nerve inflammation) (click here)