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This very interesting and people needs to know that is risk to long term zika in the body and certain vaccinations.
Perhaps that is why the government is so scare about ZIKA in the US, we are a very vaccinated nation and can make ZIKA linger longer than expected because of this.
originally posted by: jadedANDcynical
a reply to: marg6043
This very interesting and people needs to know that is risk to long term zika in the body and certain vaccinations.
Perhaps that is why the government is so scare about ZIKA in the US, we are a very vaccinated nation and can make ZIKA linger longer than expected because of this.
I seem to remember another thread around here which indicated that it might be an interaction between the virus and a certain vaccine (maybe just the vaccine and zika was blamed instead)which was implicated in the microcephaly.
In South America, the "endemic yellow fever zone" includes: Panama, Columbia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, western Ecuador, western Peru, western Bolivia, eastern Brazil.
In these countries sporadic infections occur almost exclusively to forestry and agricultural workers who are exposed occupationally in or near forests.
In Africa, the "endemic yellow fever zone" includes: Angola, Tanzania, Zaire, Kenya, Uganda, Somalia, Ethiopia, southern Sudan, southern Sudan, southern Chad, southern Niger, southern Mali, Central African Republic, Congo, Gabon, Rio Muni, Cameroon, Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana, Burkino Faso, Ivary Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gambia, Senegal, Sao Tome and Principe Islands.
In Africa the virus is transmitted in three geographic regions: principally and foremost, in the moist savanna zones of West and Central Africa during the rainy season, secondly, outbreaks occur occasionally in urban locations and villages in Africa, and finally, to a lesser extent, in jungle regions.
The vaccine funding is already in place…and so is worldwide fear.
At least three pharmaceutical companies are either considering or actively pursing programs, including giants *GlaxoSmithKline GSK , and *Sanofi SNY. But the company that appears to be the farthest along is a relatively small $500 million market cap biotech named Inovio Pharmacuetucals.
According to financial news site, StreetInsider.com, Inovio Pharma has announced it plans to start testing the Zika vaccine (which currently does not exist) in humans.
Inovio Pharma (NASDAQ: INO) CEO J. Joseph Kim said in a phone interview with Bloomberg that it plans to start testing its DNA-based Zika vaccine in non-human primates. Currently the vaccine is being tested on lab mice, but it is able to move faster than traditional vaccine development timelines. Testing in humans is targeted for this year.
Keep in mind, Inovio in this case is releasing PR based on funding, so the testing on humans portion is deliberate and widely accepted. The vaccine doesn’t exist, no one has any idea how to cure it, but target dates on human testing are already in place. Would you like to sign up to be tested by a pharmaceutical company for a vaccine that no one has any idea if they can even create? Imagine being some of the first humans to be involved in such testing. Remember a couple of weeks back, a french pharmaceutical company injured and even killed some people by performing human testing for the sake of anti-anxiety medications.
originally posted by: seagull
Oh, is Zika the latest in TEOTWAWKI diseases? Along with Bird Flu, Legionaires, etc...
I would wager that the flu, which ever one is due this year, will kill more, and make more sick.
The Olympics are the culmination of a lifetime of dreams for many of those people competing. Kill someone's dreams over might be's and maybe's? No.
The Companies Spending the Most on 2014 Sochi Olympics – And What They Really Gain
TOP sponsors in the 2014 Sochi Olympics are: McDonald's, Proctor & Gamble, Coca-Cola, Acer, Dow Chemical, Visa, General Electric, Atos, Omega SA, Panasonic, and Samsung.
In exchange for their costs, TOP sponsors get the rights to associate their brands with Olympic symbols worldwide during a particular Olympic time period.
But the corporate sponsors end up shelling out a lot more than just amount required to gain participation rights.