text:
Archive for
NEWS, prophecy, dreams, ZionsCRY, Bible, teaching, visions
cj.myfreeforum.org Forum Index
HEALTH and Medical NEWS
Zika virus, Yellow fever, MONSANTO
Is it a mosquito - or MONSANTO?
ISIS War Powers Act
Jan 22, 2016 - Martial law
authorization has been advanced by US Senate leader Mitch McConnell's new ISIS War Powers Act. Conveniently promoted during the distraction of the Snowmaggedon storm bearing down on DC. This war powers act permits military force to be used against ISIS / terrorists anywhere, including domestic deployment. This seems to conflict with Posse Commitatus which forbids use of the US military on domestic soil. This dove-tails nicely with Obama's NDAA 2011 which authorizes indefinite detention of any citizens found to be beligerent to gov't, without benefit of due process. Interesting that democrats forbid strict screening measures of immigrants from ISIS dominated countries, so we can take the fight to ISIS, within our homeland.
And the 0bamafia call Christians and patriots - the terrorists.
Senate Leader Surprises Lawmakers with New ISIS War Powers Request
Zika Virus Hits U.S.
Is This the New Mosquito-Borne Illness Travelers Have to Worry About?
This new move by SINate may - or may not - relate to Zika virus.
Dengue and Chikungunya
HARBINGER WARNINGS - Isaiah 9 prophecy
When GOD destroys USA, you cant say He didnt WARN us!
Posted <*))))>< by
ZionsCRY DAILY NEWS with prophetic analysis
I talked to an insider about ISIS War Powers Act
topic TODAY is
. Zeka is a virus you've been hearing WARNINGS on news about it this week.
Will they combine Zika with ebola? and/or other virus? nanobots?
Canada, the USA and Mexico are ONE - the N.A.U. - patterned after the EU.
The NWO are filling us with nano virus - not exactly a virus, a biolab creation. It is NOT in our best health interest. Its NOT caught - its given to us DIRECTLY thru our food, water, chemtrails, vaccines etc.
Nanotechnology can change, manipulate our DNA!
A man saved out of an illuminati family said the RFID chips, nanobots, will literally change our DNA.
NOW we can understand why no one who takes the mark of the beast can enter heaven.
I changed title of this thread September 2012 and added posts from 2 other threads.
Ingested nanoparticles more dangerous than previously thought
NANOBOTS, nanno bots
(spellings differ)
What does 'TAGGED' mean?
NANO technology
Nanotechnology, nanobots, DNA * 666 chip
Manipulating Your DNA
, making you a robot
Nanotechnology in Medicine
Nanomaterials, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News potential toxicity
Nanotechnology and surgical neurology
Davos World Economic Forum
This entire subject is too big for me! Its
Zika virus in Latin America
Jan 23, 2016
- Women in El Salvador are being advised not to get pregnant for the next 2 years, in case they pass on a disease that can cause a rare brain defect in babies. The Zika virus is sweeping through Latin America with health officials warning it could affect hundreds of thousands of people.
UN Agenda 21
renamed Agenda 2030
Sustainable development = witchcraft
Nanotechnology, nanobots, DNA
Zika is a designer killer
Zika virus is global
Jan 23, 2016
- The Zika virus is spreading around the world.
There is no vaccine for the Zika virus, which can cause fever, rashes, joint pains, and conjunctivitis within days of being contracted. Infants are most at risk from Zika, as mothers can pass the infection on to their fetus.
Treatment for the Zika virus focuses on pain relief and fever reduction, with some patients also given antihistamines for itchy skin rashes. * Preventative measures focus on general mosquito bite prevention, such as using insecticides, and special nets and screens.
The Zika virus is mainly found in South America, Africa, the Pacific Islands, and Southeast Asia. The virus was first discovered in Africa in 1947, circulating in humans, animals and mosquitoes with few documented outbreaks. In wasnt until 2007 that an Asian strain of the virus caused the first outbreak in Micronesia. The same strain caused an outbreak in French Polynesia in 2013, which has since spread to the Pacific Islands and South America.
Here comes U.N. Agenda 21 - Global Depopulation
Within 9 months of the first case being confirmed in Brazil in May 2015, most Brazilian states had reported locally-acquired cases. Brazil has seen an average of 150 babies a year born with microcephaly, but from October 2015 to January 2016 that number is over 3,500.
has noted its first case of Zika-connected microcephaly in the US.
reported its first case of the virus this week, in a two-year-old girl returning from a visit to Colombia.
How Zika spreads
The virus is primarily spread to people through the bite of an infected mosquito. It cannot be spread through human contact, as Brazils health ministry noted on Twitter.
U.N. Agenda 21 - Global Depopulation
A lab created virus which contains nanobots and humans are given it directly, thru food, water, vaccines, NOT thru mosquitoes. Its being delivered by the globalists along with el Nino. Nanobots are thinking, independently acting tiny computers. My own terminology.
As Zika virus spreads, women in Latin America are told to delay pregnancy
Jan 24, 2016 - Women throughout Latin America told to hold off on getting pregnant to avoid the risk of having babies with birth defects caused by the mosquito-borne Zika virus.
El Salvador just asked women to avoid getting pregnant until 2018.
Brazil declares emergency after 2,400 babies are born with brain damage.
The pathogen, known as Zika and first discovered in forest monkeys in Africa over 70 years ago, is the new West Nile.
The Zika Virus Takes A Frightening Turn
Things began to change in 2015. There have been half a million cases in Latin America and the Caribbean. Why is this virus suddenly spreading so rapidly? Try UN Agenda 21 - depopulation.
Rapid spread of Zika virus in the Americas raises alarm
3 NYers test positive for Zika virus: health officials
Zika virus set to spread across Americas, spurring vaccine hunt
GENEVA/LONDON (Reuters) - The mosquito-borne Zika virus, which has been linked to brain damage in thousands of babies in Brazil, is likely to spread to all countries in the Americas except for Canada and Chile, the World Health Organization said on Monday.
Zika transmission has not yet been reported in the continental United States, although a woman who fell ill with the virus in Brazil later gave birth to a brain-damaged baby in Hawaii.
Brazil's Health Ministry said in November that Zika was linked to a fetal deformation known as microcephaly, in which infants are born with smaller-than-usual brains.
Brazil has reported 3,893 suspected cases of microcephaly, the WHO said last Friday, over 30 times more than in any year since 2010 and equivalent to 1-2 percent of all newborns in the state of Pernambuco, one of the worst-hit areas.
The Zika outbreak comes hard on the heels of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, demonstrating once again how little-understood diseases can rapidly emerge as global threats.
"We've got no drugs and we've got no vaccines. It's a case of deja vu because that's exactly what we were saying with Ebola," said Trudie Lang, a professor of global health at the University of Oxford. "It's really important to develop a vaccine as quickly as possible."
Large drugmakers' investment in tropical disease vaccines with uncertain commercial prospects has so far been patchy, prompting health experts to call for a new system of incentives following the Ebola experience.
"We need to have some kind of a plan that makes (companies) feel there is a sustainable solution and not just a one-shot deal over and over again," Francis Collins, director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, said last week.
The Sao Paulo-based Butantan Institute is currently leading the research charge on Zika and said last week it planned to develop a vaccine "in record time", although its director warned this was still likely to take three to five years.
British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline said on Monday it was studying the feasibility of using its vaccine technology on Zika, while France's Sanofi said it was reviewing possibilities.
The virus was first found in a monkey in the Zika forest near Lake Victoria, Uganda, in 1947, and has historically occurred in parts of Africa, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands. But there is little scientific data on it and it is unclear why it might be causing microcephaly in Brazil.
Laura Rodrigues of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine said it was possible the disease could be evolving.
If the epidemic was still going on in August, when Brazil is due to host the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, then pregnant women should either stay away or be obsessive about covering up against mosquito bites, she said.
The WHO advised pregnant women planning to travel to areas where Zika is circulating to consult a healthcare provider before traveling and on return.
The clinical symptoms of Zika are usually mild and often similar to dengue, a fever which is transmitted by the same Aedes aegypti mosquito, leading to fears that Zika will spread into all parts of the world where dengue is commonplace.
More than one-third of the worlds population lives in areas at risk of dengue infection, in a band stretching through Africa, India, Southeast Asia and Latin America.
Zika's rapid spread, to 21 countries and territories in the Americas since May 2015, is due to the prevalence of Aedes aegypti and a lack of immunity among the population, the WHO said in a statement.
Like rubella, which also causes mild symptoms but can lead to birth defects, health experts believe a vaccine is needed to protect girls before they reach child-bearing age.
Evidence about other transmission routes, apart from mosquito bites, is limited.
Zika has been isolated in human
, and one case of possible person-to-person sexual transmission
has been described. However, more evidence is needed to confirm whether sexual contact is a means of Zika transmission," the WHO said.
While a causal link between Zika and microcephaly has not yet been definitively proven, WHO Director-General Margaret Chan said the circumstantial evidence was "suggestive and extremely worrisome".
In addition to finding a vaccine and potential drugs to fight Zika, some scientists are also planning to take the fight to the mosquitoes that carry the disease.
Oxitec, the UK subsidiary of U.S. synthetic biology company Intrexon, hopes to deploy a self-limiting genetically modified strain of insects to compete with normal Aedes aegypti.
Oxitec says its proprietary OX513A mosquito succeeded in reducing wild larvae of the Aedes mosquito by 82 percent in an area of Brazil where 25 million of the transgenic insects were released between April and November. Authorities reported a big drop in dengue cases in the area.
Zika Olympics -
Jan 26, 2016
- Rio moves to control Zika before Olympics.
Olympics open on August 5 in Rio de Janeiro.
The NWO wants this to spread, and this will do it, since the Aedes mosquito-born virus is also transmitted human to human.
Zika virus has been isolated in human
, and one case of possible person-to-person sexual transmission.
Dr. Michael Savage talked about this on his January 29, 2016 radio show.
The most dangerous thing about the Zika is paralysis and microenchephaly.
Check out the spread factor:
From the trenches,
with Shepherdess Celeste weekly radio show
Every Tuesday at 8 pm est - 6 pm MT
Brazil epicenter Zika outbreak
Jan 31, 2016 ALL by DESIGN!
- The Zika virus outbreak epicenter is in the same area as GM mosquitoes released in 2015. Zika virus explosive spread throughout the Americas. The virus has the potential to reach pandemic proportions around the globe.
Zika - seemingly - exploded out of nowhere. Though it was first discovered in 1947, cases only sporadically occurred throughout Africa and southern Asia. Zika began showing up in the Americas in 2013. In May 2015 Brazil reported its first case of Zika virus. Brazil is now considered the epicenter of the Zika outbreak.
In 2012 Oxitec unveiled its genetically-modified mosquito farm in east Brazil, with the goal of reducing dengue fever spread by the same Aedes mosquitoes which spreads the Zika virus.
By July 2015, shortly after the GM mosquitoes were first released into the wild in Juazeiro, Brazil, Oxitec proudly announced they had successfully controlled the Aedes aegypti mosquito that spreads dengue fever, chikungunya and zika virus.
Nature finds a way and the effort to control dengue, zika, and other viruses, appears to have backfired dramatically.
Holy Jurassic Park Batman!
Perfect bio-storm
A perfect storm of biological events has exploded in Zika virus.
Nations warn against getting pregnant. Babies, chief targtet of Agenda 21 depopulation.
Is this a coincidence. Article finds ties to the Rockefeller Foundation and their ties to the UN's Genocide Agenda.
The virus was first isolated in 1947 from a rhesus macaque monkey that had been placed in a cage in the Zika Forest of Uganda, near Lake Victoria by the scientists of the Yellow Fever Research Institute, established in 1936 by the
Foundation in Entebbe, Uganda.
The Rockefeller Foundation has long-standing ties to the depopulation agenda.
Some claim Rockefeller are one of the 13 illuminati families
. (NEPHILIM Genesis 6:4)
Nations Rage about Zika and Devise Useless Plans
Feb 1, 2016 - Stage set! Insert pathogen! Ready for depopulation!
Novel and old pathogens are emerging at a rate of five per year. The tsunami waves of diverse pathogens are increasing in both intensity and frequency. This is a lethal epidemiological nightmare. It is the back-story that you need to understand in order to survive and overcome this biological onslaught.
Zika virus emerged from the jungle in 1947 from a rhesus macaque monkey in Uganda. The virus is transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito. Zika originated in monkeys but jumped species to humans in 1968. It is loosely affiliated with dengue, yellow fever and West Nile.
Zika virus causes Guillain-Barre and microenchephaly s well as a plethora of other symptoms. Zika virus is a member of the Flaviviridae family.
The signature of a weaponized pathogen is that there is a cursory link between certain common diseases such as influenza, respiratory illness, polio-like viruses, and Ebola.
Respiratory illnesses,
Paralysis (Polio-like)
Hold that thought! There is much more to the story!
Celeste continued
Dr Osterholm, Biological Armageddon
Watch the succinct video from Dr. Osterholm. He prophesizes (causes) what our next few years will be like.
Outbreak, Epidemic, Pandemic, Zoonotic, Communicable, Non-Communicable
ZOONOTIC is an infectious disease that can be transmitted between wild and domestic animals and humans. It can work either way, human to animal or animal to human.
In 1975, a covert group of scientists made a decision to begin genetically modifying all life on earth, set the ground rules for geo-engineering the planet.
Article covers in detail
How the SPP will impact our lives.
need for more global control and the North American Plan for Avian & Pandemic Influenza
Humans devalued
- carcass management to the govt includes human beings as well as animals.
Kill Switches & Terrorists
Allegedly in 2014, ISIS, was implicated at least in planning to use bioweapons to strike terror by unleashing the plague. Given that hundreds of biologicals, as they are called, are shipped around the world, it is very easy to assume given the current global climate, that some might fall into terrorist hands, intentionally or unintentionally (as all the documents clearly state).
Homeland Security etc have been experimenting with viruss, bacteria, fungi and parasites and in the worst case, weaponizing them. These weaponized mutations are the root cause of antibiotic resistance. In many cases, novel pathogens are manufactured.
What scientists came up with is a KILL SWITCH inserted genetically into their biological experiments. It was placed there, once again, in case the biological fell into the hands of a terrorist. But this KILL SWITCH can just as easily wreak havoc with your immune system and body with shadowy and unsavory characters switching your switches on and off at their whim.
These switches are real and they are contributing greatly to many ailments and afflictions that mankind is suffering with today.
What does this mean and what can I do?
This may appear to be a hopeless situation which is why we looked at it through a particular lens. We can overcome this situation.
I recommend clicking and reading link
yellow fever vaccination
4 December 2011
Man in Greece Became Psychotic,Believed He Was Jesus After Yellow Fever Jab. His absence was due to an extreme illness after receiving a yellow fever vaccination.
Within hours of receiving the injection Mr Brabants temperature had spiked and his condition deteriorated rapidly. He became psychotic, sobbed and saluted at television pictures of military uniforms during the Royal Wedding and believed he was Jesus. He and his family now believe that the Stamaril inoculation he received was contaminated.
He had the inoculation in April at the East Attica Vaccination Centre in
in preparation for a working trip to the Ivory Coast in West Africa. Within hours of the injection, his temperature rose to 104F. Within two or three hours, he was shaking and shivering. The whole bed was rocking backwards and forward.
He developed insomnia and grew irritable and anxious. After seven days, he was admitted to a private hospital in Athens, where he began to suffer delusions. He became psychotic, said his wife. It began when doctors couldnt knock the fever down. He slid into a place where he didnt connect with reality. We were watching the Royal Wedding in hospital on April 29 and he started sobbing and saluting whenever he saw a military uniform.
Zika virus: WHO declares global public health emergency, says causal link to brain defects strongly suspected
The World Health Organization designated the Zika virus and its suspected complications in newborns as a public health emergency of international concern Monday. The action, which the international body has taken only three times before, paves the way for the mobilization of more funding and manpower to fight the mosquito-born pathogen spreading "explosively" through the Americas.
Zika, first identified more than 50 years ago, has alarmed public health officials in recent months because of its possible association with thousands of suspected cases of brain damage in babies. The WHO has estimated that the virus will reach most of the hemisphere and infect up to 4 million people by year's end.
[What is Zika? And what are the risks as it spreads?]
WHO Director-General Margaret Chan said at a media briefing Monday that the primary reason for the designation was the "strongly suspected" causal relationship between Zika and the rare congenital condition called microcephaly. Even before that association is scientifically confirmed or disproved, members of an 18-member advisory panel said the seriousness of the cases being reported required action. Chan concurred, saying the consequences of waiting were too great.
Even the clusters of microcephaly alone are enough to declare a public health emergency because of its heavy burden" on women, families and the community, Chan said.
Feb 1, 2016
- Genetic modification may have backfired in Brazil
The Zika virus outbreak currently gripping the Americas could have been sparked by the release of genetically modified mosquitoes in 2012, critics say.
The insects were engineered by biotechnology experts to combat the spread of dengue fever and other diseases and released into the general population of Brazil in 2012.
But with the World Health Organisation(WHO) now meeting in Geneva to desperately discuss cures for the Zika virus, speculation has mounted as to the cause of this sudden outbreak.
The Zika virus was first discovered in the 1950s but the recent outbreak has escalated alarmingly, causing birth defects and a range of health problems in South and central America.
The first cases were reported in Brazil last May with up to 1.5 million people now thought to be affected by the virus which is spread by mosquitoes endemic to Latin America.
The Aedes aegypti mosquito sub-species that carries both the Zika virus and dengue was the type targeted with genetically modified mosquitoes. The aim was to release only male Aedes mosquitoes into the wild and they would in turn produce offspring with their virus carrying female counterparts.
The race to stop Zika: Scientists scramble to find the source of the head-shrinking virus to stem the global outbreak as suspicion falls on two tiny Pacific islands
Experts trying to understand very basics of disease which has no vaccine
Virus seems to have different effect due to environmental or genetic factors
Zika virus suddenly re-emerged nine years ago on tiny Pacific island of Yap
It affected 70% of population, yet appears to have caused no birth defects
But on French Polynesia, women gave birth to babies with abnormalities
See more news on the Zika Virus at
Read more:
Why Bill Gates is being blamed for the Zika virus
The latest revelation regarding the Zika virus involves a genetically-altered mosquito project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation an experiment which some suspect may have caused the rapid spread of a once-rare disease that is now expected to circulate around the globe.
Zika virus has been linked to a birth defect called microcephaly, which causes babies to be born with brain damage and unusually small heads.
Brazil has been labeled the "epicenter" of the Zika virus outbreak, with more than a million cases reported there.
Perhaps not coincidentally, Brazil is also the site where the GM mosquito project was carried out and it involved the same strain of mosquito said to be responsible for the spread of the virus.
From The Event Chronicle:
"The Zika virus, which has been detected in 18 of the 26 states in Brazil, is transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito. A generically modified version has been developed by a British biotech company called Oxitec.
"The results of a trial in Brazil published this summer involved genetically engineered mosquitoes that allegedly fight the spread of dengue fever, yellow fever, chikungunya, and zika virus.
"But scientists have warned the study had too few controls in place to ensure that the mosquitoes released into the wild did not end up spreading dengue fever, yellow fever, chikungunya, and zika virus.
"In short, these genetically modified mosquitoes could be the cause of the Zika virus outbreak in Brazil and other parts of South and Central America."
There may be no conclusive evidence yet that the GM mosquito project funded by Gates has actually caused the spread of Zika, but it's a possibility well worth investigating.
Was it an accident?
At the very least, the project relied on sloppy science. In theory, only male mosquitoes were modified so that they would produce larvae that died before birth but there would always be some that survived.
One of the sources of the Zika/GMO connection story was a recent Reddit post that has since gone viral.
An excerpt from the Reddit post:
"The OX513A strain of male mosquitoes released in Juazeiro creates larvae that normally die in the absence of antibiotics, which is supposed to help decimate wild mosquito populations when these males are released in the wild. Problem here being of course, that "life, uh, finds a way". An estimated 3-4% of the larvae survive to adulthood in the absence of the tetracycline antibiotic. These larvae should then be free to go on and reproduce and pass on their genes. In fact, they may be the only ones that are passing on their genes in places that have their wild mosquito population decimated by these experiments."
There is further evidence that up to 15 percent of the GM mosquito offspring may be able to survive, due to the tetracycline antibiotic being present in the environment from other sources. And it seems that Oxitec, the company that developed the GM mosquito program was well aware of that fact.
As reported by Zero Hedge:
"In fact, as a confidential internal Oxitec document divulged in 2012, that survival rate could be as high as 15% even with low levels of tetracycline present. 'Even small amounts of tetracycline can repress' the engineered lethality. Indeed, that 15% survival rate was described by Oxitec."
The saga continues
It's easy to see where the Zika virus crisis might fit in with Bill Gates' admitted depopulation agenda. Not only are babies being born nearly brain-dead, but now women throughout Latin America are being urged not to have children during the next two years. Coincidence?
And in the latest Zika news, GM mosquitoes are now being considered for use in fighting the further spread of the virus.
And of course, researchers are scrambling to develop a vaccine. ...
Learn more:
First case of Zika confirmed in Austin, disease continues to spread in U.S.
The Austin/Travis County Health and Human Services Department confirmed Austins first case of Zika virus Thursday evening.
According to the departments website, a man under the age of 50 contracted the virus while abroad in Columbia. Currently, there are 10 confirmed Zika cases in Texas including seven in Harris County, one in Bexar County and two in Dallas County.
The disease is most commonly transmitted via mosquito bites and is an active threat in the Caribbean, Mexico and South and Central America, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Patients diagnosed with Zika in the continental U.S. have mostly been identified as travelers returning from a country known for active Zika transmission, according to the centers website.
According to the Texas Department of State Health Services, nine of the patients diagnosed with Zika in Texas contracted the virus in another country. The other case resulted from sexual contact between a Dallas County resident and someone who contracted the disease while abroad.
There is currently no vaccine to prevent the Zika virus, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends preventing contraction of the disease by avoiding mosquito bites.
While symptoms are usually mild or nonexistent for most people diagnosed with the disease, Zika has led to Guillain-Barré syndrome, a disorder that causes the bodys immune system to attack the nervous system, in rare cases.
CDC issued a level two travel alert for regions where the virus is spreading, urging travelers to proceed with caution. The organization especially recommends pregnant women avoid traveling to infected countries because exposure to the virus could result in a miscarriage or microcephaly, a condition in which a baby is born with an abnormally small head and an underdeveloped brain.
Zika U.S.A.
Feb 10, 2016
- Zika virus cases have turned up in the United States, but so far all but one are people who have recently traveled to affected countries. 2 cases of Zika in Nebraska had recently traveled. The governor of Florida declared a state of emergency in 4 counties where the virus has been identified, all connected to recent travel abroad.
Texas confirmed Zika in someone who had not traveled, believed to have spread through sexual contact with a person who had recently traveled abroad and become infected. This was the second case of sexual transmission.
Zika is transmitted by mosquitos. The disease has been linked to a birth defect called microcephaly, which causes children to be born with smaller than normal heads and damaged brains.
The disease is currently spreading throughout Brazil. WHO declared the spread of the virus an international public health emergency. Some have seen this as politically motivated since Brazil is hosting the Olympics this summer.
First case of Zika identified in Alabama as it emerges virus has now spread to 20 U.S. states and DC
First case of Zika virus has been identified in Alabama, officials confirmed
Four other people are being tested and a fifth's results came back negative
Zika has now spread to 20 states, as well as Washington, DC
59 cases have been reported in the U.S. and all were infected abroad
For more of the latest on the Zika virus visit
The first case of the Zika virus has been confirmed in Alabama.
Officials in Alabama said the person had recently traveled to a country affected by the virus and returned infected.
The individual, who has not been identified, is a resident of Morgan County in the Tennessee Valley and is said to be 'fine'.
Four other people have been tested and are awaiting results, while another person, who had returned from Latin American country, came back negative.
'The person is fine,' Dr Jim McVay, from the Alabama Department of Public Health, told Al.com.
Dr Tom Miller, acting state health officer, said he expected more cases to be identified in Alabama.
'We knew it was only a matter of time before we would have the first positive case of an individual in Alabama with Zika virus,' he said.
'Given the frequency of international travel to affected areas, we anticipate having additional positive cases. We are working with the medical community to identify high-risk individuals.'
The Zika virus is now believed to have spread to 20 states, as well as Washington, DC.
Read more:
Miscarriages reported in 2 U.S. women with Zika virus, CDC says
Two U.S. women who contracted the Zika virus while traveling out of the country miscarried after returning home, and the virus was found in their placentas, a spokesman for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.
Federal health officials have not previously reported miscarriages in American travelers infected with the mosquito-borne virus while abroad. But there have been miscarriages reported in Brazil, the epicenter of a Zika epidemic that now spans nearly three dozen countries. Researchers in Salvador, Brazil's third largest city, are investigating some miscarriages and still births at three maternity hospitals for possible links to Zika.
The STAT website first reported the U.S. miscarriages, based on information from the CDC's chief pathologist. The pathologist told STAT the women miscarried early in their pregnancies but provided no additional details.
[Zika and sex: Seven key things you need to know about the case in Dallas]
Last month, officials said a baby born in a Hawaii hospital was the first in the country with a birth defect linked to Zika. Hawaii officials said the baby's mother likely contracted the virus while living in Brazil last year and passed it on while her child was in the womb. Babies born with this rare condition, known as microcephaly, have abnormally small heads and brain abnormalities.
In cases when women have one or two miscarriages, the cause is usually severe chromosomal problems, experts say. "It's absolutely possible for an infection, whether it be viral or bacterial, to result in a miscarriage," said Zev Williams, an obstetrician-gynecologist who specializes in pregnancy loss at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center in New York. "Whether it was caused by Zika remains to be determined," he said, but urged individuals to take precautions to avoid contracting or transmitting the virus.
Some virus infections in pregnancy, like Rubella or German measles infections especially early in pregnancy, can spread from the mother and infect the cells of the fetus and cause direct injury to it, said Jesse Goodman, an infectious diseases doctor at Georgetown University.
In testimony before Congress Wednesday, CDC Director Tom Frieden reiterated that the agency is learning more about Zika every day, including how it can be transmitted from mother to fetus. Increasing evidence in Brazil also is linking Zika to microcephaly and other suspected neurological complications.
More than four dozen Zika cases have been confirmed in 14 states and the District of Columbia -- six involving pregnant women -- with at least another 21 cases in U.S. territories, the CDC said last Friday. Frieden also said that one U.S. case of Guillain-Barré syndrome may be linked to Zika.
[Zika linked to serious eye defects in babies with microcephaly, study finds]
It was unclear whether the two miscarriages were counted among the six cases involving pregnant women.
Global health officials are closely monitoring the spread of the virus and the incidence of suspected neurological complications. Frieden has said the link between Zika and Guillain-Barré, which can lead to paralysis in adults, is growing stronger. Several South American countries have identified cases of the syndrome.
The World Health Organization, which has designated the outbreak a "global public health emergency," issued guidance Wednesday on how women should protect themselves against possible sexual transmission of Zika. It said that until more is known, "all men and women living in or returning from an area where Zika is present -- especially pregnant women and their partners -- should be counseled on the potential risks of sexual transmission and ensure safe sexual practices."
[NIH officials accelerate timeline for human trials of Zika vaccine, saying they will now begin in the summer]
Those include the correct and consistent use of condoms, the WHO said.
Last week the CDC issued its own detailed recommendations for preventing sexual transmission of the virus, including the suggestion that men who have traveled to Zika-affected regions consider abstaining from sex with their pregnant partner for the duration of the pregnancy. The guidelines came after a Dallas resident was infected by having sex with a person who had contracted the disease while traveling in Venezuela.
Read more:
Zika HOAX
Feb 12, 2016
- Brain deformations caused by
larvicide chemical.
Zika virus has never been known to cause brain deformations in children.
Microcephaly never been scientifically linked to the Zika virus. The brain deformations are caused by the mass fumigation of low-income Brazilian people with a chemical larvicide, not by mosquitoes.
What we're seeing with the brain deformations of children is more like the history of thalidomide, a prescription medicine given to pregnant women that caused children to be born with limbs missing. But the official narrative linking it with Zika is to justify more chemical fumigation, more vaccines and more genetically engineered mosquitoes.
A dramatic increase of congenital malformations, especially microcephaly in newborns, was detected and quickly linked to the Zika virus by the Brazilian Ministry of Health. However, they fail to recognise that in the area where most sick persons live, a chemical larvicide producing malformations in mosquitoes has been applied for 18 months, and that this poison (pyroproxyfen) is applied by the State on drinking water used by the affected population.
Monsanto is poisoning both people and wildlife
GMO crops
Zika has been linked to birth defects. Now it may be causing paralysis.
The Zika epidemic flaring across the Americas has produced several hot spots with large numbers of cases. But there is no place quite like Turbo.
The mosquito-borne virus has spread rapidly here and across lowland Colombia, but the city is unusual for the subsequent outbreak of a rare, debilitating disorder known as Guillain-Barre syndrome, whose precise link to the virus remains unclear. Before Zikas arrival in Turbo, a mostly Afro-Colombian town of 60,000 set amid vast banana plantations on the countrys north coast, doctors typically saw one case of Guillain-Barre a year, if that.
In the past six weeks, there have been five, all of them severe. Three patients have died. One is fighting for his life in an intensive care unit. The fifth, a 10-year-old girl, hasnt been able to move her legs in a week.
The deaths, and the aggressiveness of the Guillain-Barre cases here, are among the first signs of a strange and worrisome pattern that is challenging the way doctors in Colombia and across Latin America are preparing for the spread of Zika.
Much of the global attention to the virus has zeroed in on a suspected link to microcephaly, a congenital defect that leaves babies with undersized heads and varying degrees of nerve damage. Brazilian officials say they may have hundreds or thousands of such cases related to Zika. But the photos of worried mothers and distressed infants may have given many people the impression that the virus poses no major risk to anyone else.
That is not true, and certainly not here in Turbo, where rank sewage-filled canals line the streets and more and more people are arriving at the crowded emergency room with bloodshot eyes and itchy, red pockmarks, the telltale signs of Zika. Something about the virus and researchers still dont know what it is appears to significantly increase the incidence of Guillain-Barre.
CDC probing 14 new reports of Zika sexual transmission
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday it was investigating 14 new reports of possible sexual transmission of the mosquito-borne Zika virus, including several involving pregnant women.
In two of the suspected cases, the infection has been confirmed in women whose only known risk factor was sexual contact with an ill male partner who had recently traveled to an area where the virus is present, the agency said.
Testing of the male partners is still pending, the CDC said.
Mosquito bites remain the primary way the virus is spread, although sexual transmission is possible, the agency added.
The new cases, like the previously reported ones, involve possible transmission of the virus from men to their sex partners.
At this time, there is no evidence that women can transmit Zika virus to their sex partners, CDC said.
The agency again stressed the need to use condoms and other precautions.
The first known case of Zika virus transmission in the United States was reported in Texas in early February by local health officials, who said it likely was contracted through sex and not a mosquito bite.
There is no vaccine or treatment for Zika, which has caused outbreaks in at least 26 countries in the Americas.
CDC also issued a Health Advisory Notice on Tuesday, as the new reports suggest sexual transmission may be a more likely means of transmission for Zika than previously considered.
The agency in early February revised its guidelines for pregnant women to include a recommendation that even those without symptoms of the Zika virus should be tested after returning from affected areas.
(Reporting by Natalie Grover and Ankur Banerjee in Bengaluru; Editing by Sriraj Kalluvila)
Brazil plans to zap mosquitoes with radiation to halt spread of Zika virus
Authorities want to release sterilised males so that females lay inviable eggs, eradicating the Aedes mosquito that carries the virus blamed for surge in babies born with microcephaly
Brazil is planning to fight the Zika virus by zapping millions of male mosquitoes with gamma rays to sterilise them and stop the spread of the virus linked to thousands of birth defects.
Called an irradiator, the device has been used to control fruit flies on the Portuguese island of Madeira. The International Atomic Energy Agency said on Monday it will pay to ship the device to Juazeiro, in the northeastern state of Bahia, as soon as the Brazilian government issues an import permit.
"It's a birth control method, the equivalent of family planning for humans," said Kostas Bourtzis, a molecular biologist with the IAEA's insect pest control laboratory.
Brazil is scrambling to eradicate the Aedes mosquito that has caused an epidemic of dengue and more recently an outbreak of Zika, a virus associated with an alarming surge in cases of babies born with abnormally small heads.
SPRAYING is CAUSING THE PROBLEM
American Women Begin Aborting Babies over Zika Fears
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported that at least two pregnant women who tested positive for the Zika virus chose to abort their babies.
The Washington Post wrote that one woman in her 30s contracted the virus during her first trimester while traveling to a Zika-affected area. Doctors found the baby had severe brain abnormalities at 20 weeks and the virus in the amniotic fluid. She decided to abort her baby.
The CDC said they received more than 257 requests for Zika testing of pregnant women in the United States. More than 97% tested negative, but the center decided to track nine pregnant women, who experienced fever, rash, joint pain and conjunctivitis and traveled to Zika areas:
Six of the infected women acquired Zika during their first trimester, the CDC reported. Of those, two experienced miscarriages and two chose to have abortions. One woman delivered a baby who suffered from severe microcephaly, a condition marked by abnormally small head size, as well as seizures, trouble swallowing, eye problems and calcifications in the brain. One pregnancy is ongoing, the CDC said. The agency said that while remnants of the Zika virus were detected in fetal tissues taken after both miscarriages, it is not known whether Zika virus infection caused the pregnancy losses. Roughly 10 to 20 percent of all pregnant women suffer miscarriages during the first trimester, officials noted.
Centers for Disease Control: Zika Virus A Bit Scarier Than We Initially Thought
The Obama administration is raising the alarm about the Zika virus, warning Congress and the American people that more funding is needed to respond to the threat posed by the virus.
Everything we look at with this virus seems to be a bit scarier than we initially thought, said Dr. Anne Schuchat, the principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Schuchat warned Americans to prepare to fight the virus, which will inevitably be transmitted to the continental U.S. She also urged pregnant women not to travel to infected areas, adding they should specifically defer travel to the Summer Olympics in Brazil.
Representatives from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases were brought to the White House to brief reporters on the disease that threatens pregnant women and their unborn children.
[T]he more and more we learn, the more and more you get concerned about the scope of what this virus is doing, warned Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Bottom line is we still have a lot to learn.
Fauci urged Congress to pass more spending to fight the virus, although he admitted that the CDC had already been siphoning funds from other projects to fund research and send prevention kits to Zika infected areas.
We really do need to learn a lot more, because this is a very unusual virus that we cant even pretend to know everything about it that we need to know, Fauci said.
The Obama administration has called for Congress to pass $1.9 billion in additional funding for the agencies.
But Congress has urged the Obama administration to find funds to fund their research and prevention efforts within their existing budgets, and to draw money from the extra funds passed by Congress to fight Ebola.
Were glad the administration has agreed to our request to use existing Ebola funds to address the Zika epidemic, Doug Andres, a spokesperson for Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)
said. If additional Zika resources are needed those funds could and should be addressed through the regular appropriations process.
The House Appropriations Committee has indicated that they will continue to monitor the funding of federal agencies, to assure that they have enough resources.
Brazilian scientists find new Zika-linked brain disorder in adults
Scientists in Brazil have uncovered a new brain disorder associated with Zika infections in adults: an autoimmune syndrome called acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, or ADEM, that attacks the brain and spinal cord.
Zika has already been linked with the autoimmune disorder Guillain-Barre syndrome, which attacks peripheral nerves outside the brain and spinal cord, causing temporary paralysis that can in some cases require patients to rely on respirators for breathing.
The new discovery now shows Zika may provoke an immune attack on the central nervous system as well.
The findings add to the growing list of neurological damage associated with Zika.
According to the World Health Organization, there is a strong scientific consensus that, in addition to Guillain-Barre, Zika can cause the birth defect microcephaly, though conclusive proof may take months or years. Microcephaly is defined by unusually small heads that can result in developmental problems.
Brazil said it has confirmed more than 940 cases to be related to Zika infections in the mothers. Brazil is investigating nearly 4,300 additional suspected cases of microcephaly.
Zika threatens TWO BILLION people across the world: New maps reveal where virus is likely to strike - as experts predict millions of births will occur in these areas, raising the risk of microcephaly
More than 2 billion people live in areas where the Zika virus could thrive, given the environmental conditions
New maps show how the virus could spread in tropical and subtropical parts of Asia, Africa and the Americas
In addition, experts predict around 5 million births to women in these areas could result in babies with microcephaly
They say the maps should spark authorities in these countries into action to protect against the spread of Zika
See more news on the Zika virus as new maps reveal areas of risk at
More than two billion people are at risk of Zika virus, experts warn, as they reveal a new map that indicates those areas at greatest risk.
The southeastern US, including much of Texas to Florida, have ideal conditions for the virus to spread.
Meanwhile, a large portion of tropical and subtropical regions also have highly suitable environmental conditions, and are on the at-risk list.
In total, these areas are inhabited by more than 2.17 billion people, scientists at the University of Oxford and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle, estimate.
Researchers produced a fine-scale global map of Zika virus transmission, as part of their study.
Scroll down for video
Read more:
Mosquito forecast: Wet spring could fuel bug boom and Zika cases
Swarming mosquitoes that plague summer barbecues will likely arrive in full force during warm, wet weather expected soon, but this year they could bring a danger beyond an itchy bite: Zika.
Meteorologists predict spring and summer conditions that could be ideal for a boom in the mosquito population that transmits the virus.
The U.S. has done battle with disease-carrying mosquitoes before. Last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 2,060 cases of the West Nile virus in the U.S., which resulted in 119 deaths, said Jim Fredericks, chief entomologist of the National Pest Management Association.
The Zika virus poses different danger, however. Though deaths from Zika are rare, it can cause microcephaly, a condition in which babies are born with small heads and incomplete brain development, the CDC said.
New discovery means more U.S. states will face a risk from Zika
For the first time in the Western Hemisphere, researchers have detected the Zika virus in Aedes albopictus, the mosquito species known as the Asian tiger, a finding that increases the number of U.S. states potentially at risk for transmission of the disease.
During the summer months when U.S. mosquito populations are at their peak, albopictus are more ubiquitous than the Aedes aegypti that have been the primary vector of the spread of Zika elsewhere in the Americas. Unlike the aegypti mosquito, which is mostly present in southern United States and along the Gulf Coast, the albopictus has a range as far north as New England and the lower Great Lakes.
The discovery was reported recently by the Pan American Health Organization after researchers in Mexico confirmed the presence of Zika in Asian tiger mosquitoes captured in the state of San Luis Potosi and sent them to government labs for testing.
U.S. health officials say they had anticipated the finding and have already encouraged states within the range of the Asian tiger mosquitoes to prepare for Zika. Scientists had previously identified the Asian tiger as the primary vector for Zika during a 2007 outbreak in the West African country of Gabon.
U.S. health officials say the latest discovery should serve as a wake-up call to state and local governments that have assumed their populations were too far north to be at risk.
Brazil Nears 100,000 Zika Cases Less Than 100 Days from Olympics
Brazil confirms this week it has documented a staggering 91,387 cases of Zika in 2016, with more than 7,000 cases being pregnant women. The World Health Organization (WHO) warns the number of Zika cases globally is set to increase, though cooling temperatures may finally lower the rates of infection in Brazil itself.
The Brazilian newspaper Folha de S. Paulo has published the new government statistics, which nearly guarantee that more than 100,000 Zika cases will be recorded this year, though Brazil is nearing the Southern Hemispheres autumn. It notes that health experts nationwide are alarmed not just by the rates of Zika contraction, but by the triple epidemic of related diseases chikungunya and dengue, both spread by the aedes aegypti mosquito. In addition to these three diseases, the mosquito is also capable of spreading yellow fever.
The Folha notes that the host city for the 2016 Summer Olympics, Rio de Janeiro, leads the number of documented Zika cases with 25,930 so far. As Zika is known to spread in two ways through mosquito bites and by sexual transmission tourists planning to travel to Rio for the Olympic Games are being warned to wear long-sleeved clothes and engage only in protected sex to avoid Zika.
WHO announced Monday that it expects the number of Zika cases to decline in Brazil, but is preparing for a marked increase in Zika cases in the Northern Hemisphere as temperatures warm. The only nations in the Western Hemisphere not to boast a significant population of the relevant mosquito species are Chile and Canada, though both have documented Zika cases within their borders in individuals who traveled abroad.
Angola, Southwest Africa
Yellow fever
May 20, 2016
- Yellow fever is a viral
illness. Health officials are concerned that the outbreak is spreading to areas where people are not vaccinated, including Namibia and Zambia. Yellow fever is a mosquito-borne disease transmitted by two types of mosquitoes. YF originated in Africa and came to the Americas with transatlantic trade.
Number of Zika cases in the U.S. increases dramatically, CDC says
Susanna Heller
May 20, 2016
According to the CDC statement, a total of 279 pregnant women have tested positive for Zika in either the U.S. or its territories. Concern about the rapid spread of the virus has caused USA Swimming to move a scheduled pre-Olympic training from Puerto Rico to Atlanta.
The mosquito-borne virus is typically contracted by travelers abroad in Latin American countries, such as Brazil, but can also be transmitted sexually.
Symptoms are typically mild and include fever, rash, joint pain and red eyes. Those infected typically do not need to seek intensive medical care.
However, there is a greater risk for pregnant women.
The CDC has found that when pregnant women contract the virus, there is a direct correlation to miscarriage and severe prenatal brain abnormalities, such as microcephaly, a defect in fetal neurological development that results in a smaller than average head and brain.
The number of reported cases of the virus in pregnant women has increased dramatically because the CDC started to account for asymptomatic cases.
The full range of outcomes of asymptomatic and symptomatic Zika virus infection during pregnancy is not yet well understood, the CDC reported.
Within the U.S., 49 percent of the 157 infected pregnant women reported feeling symptomatic. Of the 122 infected pregnant women in the U.S. territories, 66 percent reported clinical symptoms.
Monitoring all pregnant women with possible Zika virus infection during pregnancy, whether asymptomatic or symptomatic, will enhance understanding of possible adverse outcomes and allow better estimates of the number of pregnancies at risk for adverse outcomes, the report said.
While many of the pregnancies outcomes remain unknown, the CDC will continue to release weekly reports on its findings.
As of now, no one has been infected with the virus by a mosquito within the U.S. However, the CDC warns that the Zika virus will likely continue to spread to new areas as summer air travel increases.
In addition to the CDCs report, the World Health Organization announced Friday that the same strain of virus that is currently being spread across the Americas has also infected 7,500 people in Cape Verde, a small island off the coast of West Africa.
The findings are of concern because it is further proof that the outbreak is spreading beyond South America and is on the doorstep of Africa, Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, WHOs regional director for Africa, said.
Zika updates
The Zika virus is expected to reach Europe in 2016 spring.
The highest likelihood on the island of Madeira and the north-eastern coast of the Black Sea. France, Italy, Malta, Croatia, Israel, Spain, Monaco, San Marino, Turkey, Greece, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovenia, Georgia, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro.
WHO responsible for
Zika virus
May 24, 2016
- WHO admits it is partly responsible for the outbreak of the Zika virus. WHO-UN admitted its failure to introduce mosquito control policies over the last few decades has led to the current Zika virus problem.
Yellow fever: World on brink of global emergency over deadly outbreak, academics warn
Nearly a billion people in Africa and Latin America are at risk, Asia could be next and even Europe and the US have had outbreaks of the deadly disease in the past
Urgent action is needed to combat a yellow fever epidemic in Africa amid signs it is turning into a global health emergency and a severe shortage of the vaccine, academics have warned.
With nearly a billion people at risk from the deadly disease in Africa and Latin America and the danger of an outbreak in Asia, immunologist Professor Daniel Lucey and Lawrence Gostin, a professor in global health law, called on the World Health Organisation (WHO) to declare an emergency saying delays over Ebola had "cost lives".
And they also said that because of the surge in new infectious diseases in recent years thought to be driven in part by climate change the world should now set up a permanent committee to decide how to respond as new threats emerge.
Angola is in the grip of its worst yellow fever epidemic since 1986 with more than 250 deaths, and the disease is spreading rapidly Kenya, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo have all reported cases.
Zika expert warns Britons to 'think twice' about trips to Disney World because the virus is set to reach the US
Virus can leave babies with under-developed brains if mothers are infected
No evidence that mosquitoes on the US mainland infected with Zika virus
But London professor believes the situation could change during summer
Warning comes after scientists said the Rio Olympics should be moved
Read more:
Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
Zika May Be Transmitted by Oral Sex, Scientists Find
Scientists raised the possibility that the Zika virus can be transmitted by oral sex perhaps even by kissing on Friday in a letter to The New England Journal of Medicine describing one such case in France.
A single incident may seem trivial. But until early this year, there was only one known instance of sexual transmission of the Zika virus a 2008 case in which a mosquito researcher just back from Africa infected his wife in Colorado.
Now scientists believe that sexual transmission is an important driver of the Zika epidemic in the Americas. Cases have been reported in 10 countries where no mosquitoes carry the virus, including France, Germany, Italy, Portugal and New Zealand.
In the French case, a 46-year-old man returned to Paris from Rio de Janeiro on Feb. 10, shortly after experiencing Zika symptoms in Brazil fever, headache and a rash that had just ended when he reached France.
He and a 24-year-old partner had sex seven times between Feb. 11 and Feb. 20, each involving vaginal sex without ejaculation and oral sex with ejaculation.
Some NBC staffers refuse to go to Brazil Olympics over Zika fears
This could quickly go from a simple itch to something far worse.
Some NBC employees are refusing to travel to Rio de Janeiro to work on the networks Olympic broadcast this summer, fearing that they could become infected with the dreaded mosquito-borne Zika virus.
Its very simple, an NBC staffer told The Daily News. I have a family. I have small children and for me, at least, the trip seems too risky. I might want to get pregnant soon.
The staffer is one of a handful of NBC staffers who are opting not to travel to Brazil, network sources confirmed declining to provide specific numbers.
Zika virus worries wont halt 2016 Olympics in Rio: IOC
The network is sending more than 2,000 staffers to the South American country to cover the Olympics, including high-profile talent like Today hosts Matt Lauer, Meredith Viera and Savannah Guthrie.
Other reporting is expected from Winter Games stars like Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski.
Brazil has been at the epicenter of a frightening outbreak of Zika, the mosquito-borne virus linked to severe birth defects and possible neurological problems in adults.
Zika linked to birth defects in six US cases
The Zika virus has been linked to birth defects in the foetuses and babies of six women in the United States who were infected while pregnant, US health officials said Thursday.
Three of the women gave birth to infants with congenital defects such as microcephaly -- an abnormally small head -- and brain damage that are linked to Zika, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said, citing figures as of June 9.
Of the other three women, one had a miscarriage, one terminated her pregnancy, and the third gave birth to an infant that was stillborn. All three cases showed instances of Zika-related birth defects.
The six women mentioned Thursday were all infected while traveling in countries where the virus is circulating.
The CDC said it will publish weekly results of women who are pregnant and infected with Zika.
A total of 234 pregnant women in the United States had tested positive for Zika as of June 9, the CDC said.
US scientists believe that a woman infected with Zika during the first trimester of her pregnancy has a one to 13 percent chance that the fetus develops microcephaly.
The mosquito-borne Zika has spread rapidly across Latin America and the Caribbean in the past months, and experts warn that the continental United States will likely see an increase in cases as summer begins in the northern hemisphere.
There is also growing evidence that Zika can be transmitted sexually.
There is no vaccine for Zika.
The virus, which usually causes only mild, flu-like symptoms, can also trigger adult-onset neurological problems such as Guillain-Barre Syndrome, which can cause paralysis and death.
List of Possible Zika Birth Defects Grows Longer
The full scope of Zika-related birth defects may extend far beyond abnormally small heads and brain damage. Research to be presented next week at a teratology conference in San Antonio, Texas, suggests that serious joint problems, seizures, vision impairment, trouble feeding and persistent crying can be added to the list of risks from Zika exposure in the womb.
The new findings confirm doctors concerns that even when Zika-exposed babies are born without microcephaly and appear largely normal at birth they can go on to have health issues including seizures and developmental delays that only become apparent in the weeks and months after birth. The new work also reinforces recent findings that suggest the type of outcomes the babies experience also varies by what trimester their mothers were in when they were exposed to Zikawith few cases of microcephaly when mothers were exposed during the third trimester.
The research underscores the steep learning curve that scientists and officials face with this virus, which is transmitted through mosquito bites and sexual contact. Earlier studies chronicling apparent Zika-related damage had also hinted that doctors had much to learn about viral-driven birth defects. In March researchers published findings in the New England Journal of Medicine suggesting that 29 percent of pregnant women who tested positive for Zika had fetuses with abnormalities already apparent via ultrasound. The finding was particularly alarming because doctors knew many more central nervous system issues would likely only be recognizable months or even years after the childs birth.
Today it remains unclear exactly how many babies born to women infected with Zika during pregnancy will develop birth defects. But the new findings from Brazil do give a better sense of the breadth of obstacles Zika-affected families may face within the first year of their newborns lives.
Brazilian researchers followed 83 infants born since August 2015 to mothers believed to have been infected with Zika. The study included families from eight states, mostly in Brazils northeast, where birth defects have soared. Because solid testing for Zika was not yet in place last fall, however, only 10 of the 83 mothers were confirmed as Zika-exposed through laboratory testinga major caveat that applies to most current Zika-outcome studies. That reality leaves open the possibility that the birth defects could be due to other environmental or genetic factors. Still, about 70 percent of the mothers in this study remember experiencing a rasha known Zika symptomduring their pregnancies, and the researchers eliminated other leading causes of the birth defects including certain toxic exposures and viral infections from cytomegalovirus.
The Brazilian team found that about 10 percent of the 83 babies had knee or elbow joint limitations so severe that the infants cannot fully extend their arms or legs. Another 43 percent of the babies had less-pronounced joint problems that impeded finger or toe motion, or the babies had other limb abnormalities like clubfeet. And half of the babies had seizures and abnormal eye exams.
This study reflects the situation of a relatively small study groupand only included babies with abnormalities. But it does provide some insights, including that birth defects may vary depending on what trimester the mother became infected with the virus. These findings are in line with our findings about babies exposed to Zika in utero, says Karin Nielsen-Saines, a pediatric infectious diseases specialist and senior author of the March NEJM research. Still, she cautioned that because this new study only includes babies with abnormalities it does not give a good snapshot of how common birth defects might really be among the Zika-exposed. You might be missing children who are normal so you may skew your data toward abnormalities, she says.
Zika has ushered in a number of unwelcome surprises. It is the first insect-borne disease with a proven link to serious birth defects (vision problems have been linked to West Nile Virus but not yet causally verified). Yet infection with several other viruses during pregnancyin particular toxoplasmosis, rubella or cytomegaloviruscan also lead to microcephaly, vision problems or hearing loss that may not be immediately apparent at birth, so viral-driven birth defects are not unprecedented. CVM and toxoplasmosis can also, rarely, lead to joint issues, says Dee Quinn, director of the Arizona branch of the nonprofit MotherToBaby and a senior genetic counselor on staff at the Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy at the University of Arizona.
The new Brazil findings on Zika also echo certain patterns related to those other viral infections. Notably, mothers infected with Zika late in their pregnancies tended to have babies with relatively less-serious side effects: The children more often had developmental delays including trouble sitting up, as well as seizures instead of microcephaly and significant brain calcifications, says Lavinia Schuler-Faccini, the president of the Brazilian Society of Medical Genetics and the scientist presenting the findings next week. Still, that does not mean fetuses exposed during the third trimester are better off. Nielsen-Saines says that in her published work and in ongoing analysis she is seeing that such late exposure is more likely to lead to stillbirths.
Pinning down more concrete answers about how common birth defects may be among pregnant women remains an arduous task, and scientists still do not know if other factors including genetics, exposure to other viruses or how women contracted the virusvia sex or mosquito bitemay play a role. Further complicating efforts to get a handle on the issue: according to the World Health Organization, more pregnant women infected with Zika are now aborting their fetuses.
First Zika-related death in continental U.S. reported in Utah
U.S. health officials confirmed Friday that a Utah resident's death late last month was the first Zika-related death in the continental United States.
The Salt Lake County health department said the elderly person had an underlying health condition. The individual, who had traveled to a Zika-affected region this year, tested positive for the virus, the department said in a statement. The exact cause of death has not been determined, however.
"We know [Zika] contributed to the death, but we don't know if it was the sole cause," medical officer Dagmar Vitek said in a news conference.
Gary Edwards, the department's executive director, said officials learned of the case while reviewing death certificates. Laboratory tests conducted in Utah were positive for Zika, but the results "did not come back until the individual had died," he said.
They are using Zika- a bad cold - to terrify us.
DONT kill your child in the womb out of fear
Tens of thousands of babies 'may be born with Zika disorders'
Tens of thousands of babies may be born with debilitating Zika-related disorders in the course of the outbreak sweeping through Latin America and the Caribbean, researchers said Monday.
Mathematical projections suggest about 93.4 million people may catch the virus -- including some 1.65 million pregnant women -- before the epidemic fizzles out, a team reported in the journal Nature Microbiology.
Eighty percent of people will develop mild symptoms or never even be aware they have the virus.
But for babies in the womb Zika can be devastating -- linked to a brain-damaging disorder called microcephaly that can lead to stillbirth or severely disabling birth defects.
Among women in a high-risk early term of pregnancy, anything between one and 13 percent have foetuses develop microcephaly or other Zika-related complications, said the multidisciplinary research team from the United States, Britain and Sweden.
This meant "somewhere on the order of tens of thousands across the whole of Latin America and the Caribbean who could realistically end up developing microcephaly or a related condition," said study co-author Alex Perkins of the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, and specified this referred to "live births."
The projection was "a worst-case scenario" he told AFP, "but a realistic one".
It did not account for women who may be postponing conception or having abortions as a result of the outbreak.
"I know that does not provide a very precise number, but I think it's valuable in that at least it gives an order of magnitude guess, which is better than having no idea whatsoever."
The team used data on the usual number of pregnancies, the prevalence of the mosquito species spreading the virus, weather conditions and socio-economic conditions that make people more vulnerable, and disease spread dynamics.
- Conservative estimate? -
Mathematical models of disease progression are notoriously prone to inaccuracies, as estimates can be skewed by such factors as the infectiousness of the virus, the adaptative response of the immune system and social and economic factors that help it to spread.
Experts not involved in the study said the new estimate may be conservative.
Derek Gatherer of Lancaster University noted recent research which found that as many as 29 percent of babies of Zika-infected mothers develop problems.
If so, "over half a million" children may ultimately be affected, he said.
Whatever the final number, a support system for affected babies and their families "needs to be put in place as soon as possible," said Jimmy Whitworth of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
"Over 1,700 affected babies have been born in Brazil so far, and the numbers are going to continue to increase in the months ahead," he said in comments via the Science Media Centre.
The research team predicted Olympics host Brazil will suffer more than double the impact of any other country, with about 580,000 pregnant women out of 37.4 million total infections.
Other affected countries include Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, Cuba, Haiti, Argentina and the Dominican Republic.
Another recent study had put the annual number of pregnancies in the Zika-affected region at about 5.4 million.
But many of those, the new paper said, would not be affected by Zika, due to the effects of "herd immunity".
This is a natural process whereby people become immune to a virus after their first exposure, eventually reaching the point where mosquitoes cannot find enough susceptible people to keep the epidemic going, and it dies out without infecting everyone.
Earlier this month, a study in the American journal Science predicted the outbreak should be over within three years.
The virus, first discovered in Uganda in 1947, took the world by surprise when it emerged, and with such virulence, in Latin America last year.
There is no cure or vaccine.
The FDA just greenlit releasing mutant Zika-killing mosquitoes in Florida
Our sci-fi future just got a whole lot closer to becoming a reality, after the Food and Drug Administration gave the okay to a field trial that would release genetically modified Zika-killing mosquitoes in the Florida Keys.
On Friday, the FDA released a final environmental assessment of the trial, finding that it will not have significant impacts on the environment. The project, led by Oxitec, a biotech company that focuses on insect control, calls for the release of thousands of genetically engineered male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. The lab insects are bred so that over time they could kill off much of the local mosquito population by passing on a gene fatal to any offspring they have with wild females.
This is not the last hurdle Oxitec faces in turning its dream of disease-obliterating mosquitoes into reality. The company will have to win the approval of the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District, which plans to vote on the proposal after issuing a survey testing local sentiment of Keys residents this fall. While past surveys have shown the project to have a majority of support, it has also had vocal naysayers. Some fear the environmental impacts that removing the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, a non-native species, might have. Others have more imaginative objections, such as conspiracy theories about the project.
Oxitecs mosquitoes are engineered to include two copies of the baby-mosquito killing genes, overriding natural selection to make it almost certain that their offspring receive the killer gene from dad. Oxitec claims that trials in Brazil, Panama and the Cayman Islands have reduced mosquito populations by 90%, calling the success an unprecedented level of human control over nature. (The World Health Organization, which has also studied using such tactics against disease, has stated that while the technology has demonstrated the ability to reduce the [mosquito] populations in small-scale field trials there is still an absence of data on epidemiological impact.)
The FDAs okay is a major step forward toward a U.S. implementation of the technology at a time of much concern over the spread of Zika in the U.S. after cases in Florida. Derric Nimmo, the senior scientist for Oxitecs Keys project, told me that in the coming months much of his time will be spent going door-to-door in Key Haven, the area of the Keys where he hopes to do the release. Nimmos job now is to convince residents that his project is the best chance at stopping the spread of Zika in the U.S.
Everywhere else where weve done this theres been 90% or better control of the population, he said. If we can show that its the same in the Key Haven, it has a really good chance of being able to prevent Zika in Miami or wherever in the U.S.
Oxitecs mosquitoes, he said, is a solution that Keys residents dont realize they need.
Luke Alphey, a co-founder of Oxitec and developer of the technology who no longer works with the company, said he hopes Keys residents find the FDAs findings reassuring.
They have looked carefully at the method and specifically at this trial, and determined it is safe, he said. I hope people who dont have the time and the information to learn everything about this will take comfort in the fact that the FDA has had the time and the information, and this is their conclusion.
The Florida Keys Mosquito Control District spends $1 million a year fighting the Aedes aegypti, only succeeding in controlling 30 to 60 percent of the population with insecticide. While its true that scientists cant be certain about the environmental impacts the trial will have, the methods currently being tested are unlikely to halt Zikas spread.
Harris County infant dies in first Zika-related death in Texas
Texas has confirmed that an infant who recently died in Harris County had microcephaly linked to the Zika virus. The baby passed away shortly after birth and is the first Zika-related death reported in Texas.
During her pregnancy, the mother was in Latin America, where she was infected, and the baby acquired the infection in the womb. Recent test results confirmed the baby's condition and link to Zika. The mother and baby are classified as travel-related cases, and there is no additional associated risk in Texas.
Last month Texas reported the state's first case of microcephaly linked to Zika, also a Harris County infant.
"Zika's impact on unborn babies can be tragic, and our hearts are with this family," said Dr. John Hellerstedt, Texas Department of State Health Services commissioner. "Our central mission from the beginning has been to do everything we can to protect unborn babies from the devastating effects of Zika."
DSHS is coordinating with Harris County Public Health and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to follow the cases.
Texas has reported 97 cases of Zika virus disease, including the two infants with microcephaly from Harris County. All Texas cases are related to travel abroad to areas with active Zika transmission. There have been no reported cases of Zika virus disease transmitted by mosquitoes in Texas, but Texas is on alert for the possibility local transmission.
With its link to microcephaly, Zika poses a serious threat to unborn children. DSHS is tracking the number of pregnant women with Zika in the state, working with providers and reporting weekly data to the national Zika pregnancy registry. DSHS is studying past microcephaly data to understand the prevalence and patterns of this condition in Texas.
DSHS has been emphasizing precautions, specifically for travelers and pregnant women, through an ongoing public education campaign and via
Common symptoms of the Zika virus include fever, rash, joint pain and conjunctivitis, according to the CDC. Approximately one in five people infected with the virus show symptoms. Severe complications from the virus that require hospitalization are rare, according to the CDC.
The recent cluster of microcephaly cases and other neurologic disorders reported in Brazil constitute a public health emergency of international concern, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said. The announcement came after WHO convened its first emergency committee meeting on Zika virus.
Zika virus outbreak in some countries of the Americas, notably Brazil, has been associated with a steep increase in the birth of babies with abnormally small heads and in cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome.
Human body odor to trap zika
The researchers have developed a human body odour-baited trap to lure malaria mosquitoes, which has been successfully tested on a Rusinga Island in Kenya. The newly developed trap may also curb mosquito related diseases such as zika and dengue fever. In the trap - powered by solar energy - body odour chemicals have been used, which has cut the insect's population by 70% and malaria infection rates by 30%.
Zika Images Show 'Worst Brain Infections That Doctors Will Ever See'
"The images show the worst brain infections that doctors will ever see," says Dr. Deborah Levine, at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, who contributed to the study. "Zika is such a severe infection [in fetuses]. Most doctors will have never seen brains like this before."
Zika virus: Florida announces five new cases
Florida's governor has announced five new cases of Zika, including one in the Tampa Bay area, 265 miles (425 km) north of Miami. Four other cases of the virus, which is often spread by mosquitoes, were found in Wynwood in Miami, where officials have sprayed pesticides. The Tampa case involves a woman in Pinellas County without a travel history, suggesting local transmission.
Zika cases jump to 170 in California, sparking travel warnings
alifornia health officials on Friday urged travelers returning home from the Olympics as well as countries where Zika is spreading to continue to wear insect repellent and to practice safe sex for several more weeks, to help prevent the spread of the virus in the Golden State.
While Zika is spread primarily through the bite of the black-and-white-striped Aedes mosquito, the virus also can be passed through sex, health officials said.
They are mostly concerned with people returning home from the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, because Brazil has been hit hard by the virus.
Florida finds Zika in trapped mosquitoes, 1st in US mainland
MIAMI (AP) Authorities in Florida said Thursday they have found the Zika virus in three groups of trapped mosquitoes in Miami Beach, the first time this has happened in the continental US.
The Zika-carrying mosquitoes were trapped in a touristy 1.5-square-mile area of Miami Beach that had been identified as an active zone of active transmission of the virus, the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services said in a news release.
"This is the first time we have found a Zika virus positive mosquito pool in the continental United States," said Erin Sykes, a CDC spokeswoman.
Finding the virus in mosquitoes has been likened by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control to finding a needle in a haystack, but the testing helps mosquito controllers target their efforts, and it confirms that the insects are indeed a mode of transmission as suspected. The illness spreads from people to mosquitoes to people again through bites, but the insects do not spread the disease among their own population, and their lifespan is just a few weeks.
The announcement was made Thursday as a poll was released suggesting nearly 48 percent of Americans are wary of traveling to U.S. destinations where people have been infected with Zika through mosquito bites.
The survey of health care attitudes by the Kaiser Family Foundation also found 61 percent felt uneasy about traveling to Zika zones outside the U.S. mainland, including Puerto Rico.
Most of the Zika infections from Florida mosquitoes have been in the Miami area, not the tourist mecca of Orlando and its Walt Disney World, Universal and SeaWorld theme parks.
"There are no non-travel related cases in Orange County or central Florida," Gov. Rick Scott said earlier this week at an appearance in the Orlando area.
But Miami is a major tourism draw, with more than 15.5 million people making overnight visits to the city and its nearby beaches last year. And overall, Florida set a new record for tourism with more than 105 million people from out of state and other countries visiting the state in 2015.
"This find is disappointing, but not surprising," Commissioner of Agriculture Adam H. Putnam said in a statement on Thursday. "Florida is among the best in the nation when it comes to mosquito surveillance and control, and this detection enables us to continue to effectively target our resources."
Since July, authorities have linked a couple dozen cases to transmission in small areas of Miami's Wynwood district and the popular South Beach neighborhood of Miami Beach. Other isolated cases not linked to travel outside the U.S. also have been confirmed elsewhere in Miami-Dade county, as well as in neighboring counties and in the Tampa Bay area, totaling 47 for the state.
The Kaiser poll also found that a third of those interviewed believe Congress should make it a top priority to pass legislation increasing money to combat the virus. President Barack Obama proposed $1.9 billion in emergency funding for Zika in February, but Congress has been unable to agree on a final bill.
The poll of 1,211 adults conducted Aug. 18-24 has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
Scott, a Republican, has repeatedly called on Congress to send the president a Zika funding bill.
"We still need the federal government to show up," Scott told reporters recently in Miami. "It's not just a Florida issue."
Putnam said Miami-Dade County, the City of Miami Beach, and state and federal partners are continuing to work aggressively to prevent Zika's spread. The county's mosquito control team is inspecting properties to remove standing water where the bugs breed, and spraying in a 1/8-mile radius around the area where the infected mosquitoes were trapped.
Officials said 95 more mosquito samples each one containing several dozen bugs have tested negative since those three were found.
"As it has been from the beginning, our goal is to eliminate the cycle of transmission by eliminating the mosquitoes," Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos A. Gimenez said in the news release.
Millions of bees dead after Florida and South Carolina spray for Zika mosquitoes.
A horror story is emerging from the southwest of the United States where bee keepers are waking up to find their bee farms wiped out after aerial spraying with a substance called Naled, a common insecticide that kills mosquitoes as well as millions of bees and other insects.
Stressed insects tried to flee their nests, only to surrender in little clumps at hive entrances. The dead worker bees littering the farms suggested that colony collapse disorder was not the culprit in that odd phenomenon, workers vanish as though raptured, leaving a living queen and young bees behind.
Instead, the dead heaps signaled the killer was less mysterious, but no less devastating. The pattern matched acute pesticide poisoning. By one estimate, at a single apiary Flowertown Bee Farm and Supply, in Summerville 46 hives died on the spot, totaling about 2.5 million bees. LIKE VISITING A CEMETERY, PURE SADNESS.
The Washington Post reports:
On Sunday morning, the South Carolina honey bees began to die in massive numbers.
Death came suddenly to Dorchester County, S.C. Stressed insects tried to flee their nests, only to surrender in little clumps at hive entrances. The dead worker bees littering the farms suggested that colony collapse disorder was not the culprit in that odd phenomenon, workers vanish as though raptured, leaving a living queen and young bees behind.
Instead, the dead heaps signaled the killer was less mysterious, but no less devastating. The pattern matched acute pesticide poisoning. By one estimate, at a single apiary Flowertown Bee Farm and Supply, in Summerville 46 hives died on the spot, totaling about 2.5 million bees.
Walking through the farm, one Summerville woman wrote on Facebook, was like visiting a cemetery, pure sadness.
A Clemson University scientist collected soil samples from Flowertown on Tuesday, according to WCBD-TV, to further investigate the cause of death. But to the bee farmers, the reason is already clear. Their bees had been poisoned by Dorchesters own insecticide efforts, casualties in the war on disease-carrying mosquitoes.
On Sunday morning, parts of Dorchester County were sprayed with Naled, a common insecticide that kills mosquitoes on contact. The United States began using Naled in 1959, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, which notes that the chemical dissipates so quickly it is not a hazard to people. That said, human exposure to Naled during spraying should not occur.
In parts of South Carolina, trucks trailing pesticide clouds are not an unusual sight, thanks to a mosquito-control program that also includes destroying larvae. Given the current concerns of West Nile virus and Zika there are several dozen cases of travel-related Zika in South Carolina, though the state health department reports no one has yet acquired the disease from a local mosquito bite Dorchester decided to try something different Sunday.
It marked a departure from Dorchester Countys usual ground-based efforts. For the first time, an airplane dispensed Naled in a fine mist, raining insect death from above between 6:30 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. Sunday. The county says it provided plenty of warning, spreading word about the pesticide plane via a newspaper announcement Friday and a Facebook post Saturday.
Local beekeepers felt differently.
Thanks for sharing.
Aerial Spraying for Zika Stirs Controversy in Miami Beach
Miami Beach city leaders are at odds with a scheduled aerial spraying of the insecticide Naled over a 1.5-square-mile infection zone.
In a statement Tuesday, Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez said the flights recommended by Florida health officials and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will begin Thursday and continue for a month.
Gimenez said the number of Miami Beach mosquitoes found with Zika increased over the weekend.
The Florida Health Department announced Tuesday six new non-travel related cases of the Zika virus in Miami Beach.
Not everyone is happy about the planned aerial spraying in Miami Beach, including the city's mayor Philip Levine.
"I am not comfortable with it, but I think it's important that we listen to the proper scientific and medical authorities and what they recommend," said Levine.
Miami Beach City Commissioner Mike Grieco is very upset over the announcement and has called for a special meeting Wednesday to cancel the scheduled aerial spraying.
Grieco said the aerial assault on mosquitoes could be a threat to everyone.
"It's a neurotoxin. We don't know the risks. It's been outlawed in Europe since 2012. It's something that has not been used in Miami, historically," said Grieco.
According to a spokesperson for Mayor Gimenez, Naled, which is EPA approved, has been used in Miami-Dade County since the 1970's.
On Tuesday, county workers started spraying the streets of Miami Beach with a chemical called BTI.
It's a natural bacteria which kills mosquito larvae to stop them from developing into adult mosquitoes. The street spraying will continue three times a week for the next month.
The Florida Health Department is conducting free Zika testing at the Miami Beach Police Department Tuesday for anyone who lives within the mile and a half Zika zone.
Texas confirms local Zika transmission
By Debra Goldschmidt, CNN
Updated 4:40 PM ET, Mon November 28, 2016
CNN)Texas has become the second state in the continental United States to confirm a locally transmitted case of the Zika virus, state and federal health officials said Monday.
Lab results confirmed the virus in a non-pregnant female resident of Brownsville last week. She has not traveled to an area where the virus is circulating and has no other known exposure to the virus that would have put her at risk for infection.
Health officials said they are not surprised to confirm local transmission of this virus in South Texas, near the Mexico border.
"We knew it was only a matter of time before we saw a Zika case spread by a mosquito in Texas," state Health Commissioner Dr. John Hellerstedt said. He added that more cases are expected, but officials do not believe the virus will be widespread.
cj.myfreeforum.org Forum Index
HEALTH and Medical NEWS


text:
Noizeland, officially the Republic of Noizeland is a country in northwestern NSC.In Noizeland there live 8,49 million people. About 3,5 million live in the Republic where 93 per cent of them are Catholics.
- The first official language was Noizish, which belongs to the Celtic language group.
Traditional Food
- Krüsttrapfri, Noizenbreed, Noizish Coffee
- Illinoize, metropolis: Los Helenas
- Grazland, Grazity
- Serduchkan, Dancintown
- Ruslanaland, Wild City
- Molitvan, Nox
- Ztyria, Pariz
- Douzeland, Zerocity
Noizeland has one of the most dynamic music traditions in NSC. They have all types of music: From busking and rock to classic, jazz and opera. There are music pubs, where the music and the atmosphere is the same as hundreds and hundreds years ago. With the drown of the pipes and the role of the bodhran drum and the weave of dance.
NSC: The Nation Song Contest (abbr: NSC) is a spin-off of the Eurovision Song Contest. The NSC is held on the forums of esctoday . Users make a fictional country (here: nation) and each edition they choose a song to participate in the NSC. Any entry must never have participated in either Eurovision or a previous edition of NSC.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
That feeling of fear comes over you quickly, and you stare blindly and feel totally helpless.
You're scrambling to save what little time you have, and searching intently and feverishly for a solution to the problem at hand.
You did something really stupid: you dropped your smart phone into water.
Everyone, at least once, has experienced this mishap to some degree, whether your smart phone is totally submerged in water or you had the bright idea of listening to music in the shower and a few drops seemed through the screen.
In any event, the idea that your phone has been exposed to water isn't the end of the world, even though at that very moment it seems like it.
Like this article? Sign up to get similar articles sent to your inbox:
Keycode is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada. We are constantly striving to improve our service to both advertisers and consumers. We invite you to join our social community and provide us with feedback.


text:
Question: The brake shown in the figure has a coefficient of friction
The brake shown in the figure has a coefficient of friction of 0.30 and is to operate using a maximum force F of 400 N. If the band width is 50 mm, find the band tensions and the braking torque
View Solution:
View Solution:
Answer to relevant QuestionsThe figure depicts a band brake whose drum rotates counterclockwise at 200 rev/min. The drum diameter is 16 in and the band lining 3 in wide. The coefficient of friction is 0.20. The maximum lining interface pressure is 70 ...A cone clutch has D = 330 mm, d = 306 mm, a cone length of 60 mm, and a coefficient of friction of 0.26. A torque of 200 N ?m is to be transmitted. For this requirement, estimate the actuating force and pressure by both ...When a motor armature inertia, a pinion inertia, and a motor torque reside on a motor shaft, and a gear inertia, a load inertia, and a load torque exist on a second shaft, it is useful to reflect all the torques and inertias ...A flat-belt drive is to consist of two 4-ft-diameter cast-iron pulleys spaced 16 ft apart. Select a belt type to transmit 60 hp at a pulley speed of 380 rev/min. Use a service factor of 1.1 and a design factor of 1.0.A designer has to select a metal-belt drive to transmit a power of Hnom under circumstances where a service factor of Ks and a design factor of nd are appropriate. The design goal becomes Hd = Hnom Ksnd . Use Eq. (17–8) to ...
Post your question


text:
Yurt Hire St Tudy
Looking to hire a yurt in St Tudy for your next party? Get a quote for yurt hire in St Tudy using Add to Event.
2 Yurt suppliers near St Tudy
Get Quotes from yurt hire companies near St Tudy
Fill out our simple form and receive personalised quotes from St Tudy yurt hire companies.
- 100% free service
- Quick and simple process
- Reach the whole industry
- Only hear from available suppliers
1. Get Introduced
Submit a single request and receive personalised quotes from a range of suppliers in your local area.
2. Compare Suppliers
View an estimate, personal message, reviews and business profile of each company that gets in touch.
3. Hire the Best
Call or message your favourite suppliers and once you're ready simply hire the best match for your event.
We have 2 yurt hire companies near St Tudy
Contact them all with a single request