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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Microcephaly can occur for other reasons beside a Zika infection during pregnancy. State birth defects tracking systems have estimated that microcephaly ranges from 2 babies per 10,000 live births to about 12 babies per 10,000 live births in the Unites States.

Who pays for these babies now?[/quote]

You're missing the point. With the current crisis, of mothers infected with Zika microcephaly rates are estimated at 13%.  You do realize that Zika sweeps through a population very quickly, right?  Mosquito AND sexual transmission. We have the right conditions for an epidemic because no one here has any immunity. [/quote]

Actually it is not sweeping through the US. There has been one outbreak in July that consists of 14 people.[/quote]

It is not sweeping through the US [b]yet[/b].  Look how quickly it happened in Puerto Rico. CDC estimates that 25% of PR's population will be infected within the first year.

Oh, I forgot... you'd need to believe in science to look at this objectively.[/quote]

Show me the science that it will sweep through the US. The CDC and the NIH predict these micro-outbreaks to continue during mosquito season but caution against mass hysteria.
The CDC needs funding to be able to detect and then extinguish these outbreak, in the same manner that they responded to Dengue outbreaks in 2001.[/quote]

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