The New Observer
January 24, 2016
The ongoing flood of invaders pouring across the Mexico-US border are coming from nations that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has officially warned of being the center of a Zika virus outbreak, which has been linked to the awful microcephaly deformity.
As of January 22, the CDC has raised its “Alert level” to 2—the second highest, which urges travelers to “practice enhanced precautions” for the following countries: Samoa, Cape Verde, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Suriname, Venezuela, Barbados, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Martinique, Saint Martin, Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Panama.
Among these countries are all the main origin nations for the “unaccompanied minors” and other illegal immigrants still coming into America as a result of the non-enforcement of US immigration law.
The CDC urged all pregnant women to avoid these twenty-one Third World countries that have seen outbreaks of the Zika virus, which was first discovered in a rhesus monkey living in the Zika Forest of Uganda in 1947.
Zika has been slowly spreading throughout the Third World, but has now dramatically increased its reach over the last few months to countries bordering the US. So far, at least a dozen cases of Zika have been confirmed in the United States, including cases in Hawaii and Puerto Rico.
Experts have not yet discovered a definitive link between the Zika virus and microcephaly—an abnormally small brain and skull in newborns, which inflicts irreparable brain damage on the victim—and have only been able to thus far establish that the virus seems to be present in women who give birth to the deformed babies.
In addition, the CDC said, Zika has also been linked to Guillain–Barré syndrome, a rapid-onset muscle weakness as a result of damage to the peripheral nervous system.
Brazil is currently the center of the microcephaly storm, with at least 4,000 and counting cases reported over the last few months. The situation is regarded as so bad that the governments of Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, and Jamaica have asked women not to fall pregnant until the outbreak is halted.
In its warning, the CDC has recommended that “all pregnant women consider postponing travel to areas where the Zika virus transmission is ongoing.”
According to the CDC, about 80 percent of people who contract the virus show no symptoms. Those who do exhibit symptoms experience a slight fever and rash. There is no vaccine for Zika, nor is there any antiviral treatment.
The CDC said that pregnant women who have just returned from any of the aforementioned countries should be “evaluated for Zika virus infection and tested in accordance with CDC Interim Guidance.”
Until more is known, and “out of an abundance of caution,” the CDC has recommended the following special precautions for pregnant women and women trying to become pregnant:
* Pregnant women in any trimester should consider postponing travel to the areas where Zika virus transmission is ongoing. Pregnant women who do travel to one of these areas should talk to their doctor or other healthcare provider first and strictly follow steps to avoid mosquito bites during the trip.
* Women trying to become pregnant or who are thinking about becoming pregnant should consult with their healthcare provider before traveling to these areas and strictly follow steps to prevent mosquito bites during the trip.
During the first week of infection, Zika virus can be found in the blood and passed from an infected person to another mosquito through mosquito bites. An infected mosquito can then spread the virus to other people.
It is therefore a major source of concern that the very nations against which the CDC is issuing travel health warnings, are the same ones supplying the majority of illegal invaders coming into America.