Zika virus - just media hype?

Hello peripatetic_soul,

Your topic has been moved to the Expat Cafe - open discussions forum since you are looking at this issue in a global angle. Members from the different forums will be able to interact with you on this new thread.

There are some threads on the forum which might be of interest to you :

https://www.expat.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=560358https://www.expat.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=560370

All the best
Bhavna

News on Australian TV states that there have been 3 cases of Zika notified to the health authorities there. 1 in WA and 2 in Qld.

the 1 in WA and 1 from Qld are adults and have recently returned from South America and the 3rd case is a child who has been on holiday in Samoa.

The big worry is the Olympic Games and some athletes are considering whether to go or not.

This disease apparently was first noted in 1947 but may have mutated over the years.

Hello peripatetic_soul,

If you ask me it's pretty much hype and a mountain of unproven leaps of logic by some pretty dodgy Brazilian researchers. I've been living in Brazil for 14 years now and am without any doubt the "go to guy" for anything Brazilian.

You may want to read the following topic threads from the Brazil Forum, I think my comments will be quite interesting to you.

https://www.expat.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=560370https://www.expat.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=560358

You've also got to remember that much of this handwringing is from the same World Health Organizatiion - WHO who has preached that we should all stop eating bacon because it's more dangerous to us all than a week in Chernobyl.

Cheers,
James
https://www.expat.com Experts Team

The press love to make a meal of anything that will sell their rags, but there's clearly a problem as so many governments are taking interest in the issue.
That's before we look at the human cost, especially for the parents of so many babies.