Zika Virus redux

[mjvcaj]

Earlier this year I brought up the Zika Virus and people seemed a bit dismissive, likely due to some of the data and links that were available at the time.

https://indiana.forums.rivals.com/threads/zika-virus.91928/#post-1148138

I'm wondering how everyone feels about it now that is has infected parts of Miami. Now reports are demonstrating that it is now present outside of the quarantined area:

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/health-care/article93386952.html

While the posters on this board continue to focus on Trump obsession, there is an actual crisis already upon us.

http://www.cdc.gov/zika/geo/united-states.html

Thanks to the two dogshit parties that control politics in this once-great country, requested appropriations to fight this virus continue to get "kicked down the road". Shame on the GOP for trying to push through more stupid, archaic social policies in the bill.

Until this country realizes that being forced to vote for one of two shitty options is even worse than a monarchy, we will continue to wind up with Presidential candidates that we witnessed in 2016 and completely ignore the health and safety of this country and its future.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/zika-politics-congress-224857

 

[mjvcaj]

And here we go:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/cdc-confirms-active-transmission-of-zika-in-miami-beach-1471629414

Turns out Zika isn't harmless for adults either...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-19/zika-may-cause-brain-damage-in-adults-too

In addition to causing the birth defect microcephaly, Zika can wreak havoc in our brains' stem cells, researchers from The Rockefeller University and La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology found in a study published in the journal Cell Stem CellThursday.


The stem cells, known as neural progenitor cells, help replace damaged neurons—the main components of our brain and spinal cord—and assist with learning and memory. Using a mouse model, the researchers found that Zika can target those cells, which can lead to reduced brain volume and complications in brain functioning—similar to the long-term effects of microcephaly.

“Getting infected with Zika as an adult may not be as innocuous as people think,” Joseph Gleeson, the study's lead author and head of Rockefeller’s pediatric brain disease laboratory, said in a release.

Neural progenitor cells were previously thought to become resistant to Zika as they became neurons in healthy adults, but Gleeson's team's study found that Zika affects the specific cells in adults just as it does in fetuses. Using fluorescent biomarkers, the researchers showed that the areas with the brain’s stem cells were significantly infected.

During fetal development, the Zika virus affects the whole brain evenly. But in adult mice, the researchers found Zika only affected regions specific to neural progenitor cells—though they have yet to test the results of their study in humans.


“It’s a complex disease—it’s catastrophic for early brain development, yet the majority of adults who are infected with Zika rarely show detectable symptoms. Its effect on the adult brain may be more subtle, and now we know what to look for,” said Sujan Shresta, a professor at the La Jolla Institute of Allergy and Immunology and one of the authors of the study, in the release.

 

[iuwclurker1]

Shame on the GOP for trying to push through more stupid, archaic social policies in the bill.

Republicans don't have to worry about Zika. They live in a bubble.

 

[TheOriginalHappyGoat]

Shame on the GOP for trying to push through more stupid, archaic social policies in the bill.

I wish the founders had included a strict Germaneness Clause in Article I.

 

[mjvcaj]

I wish the founders had included a strict Germaneness Clause in Article I.

Can you translate that into simpleton for me?

 

[TheOriginalHappyGoat]

Can you translate that into simpleton for me?

Some nations (and in the US, states) actually have in their written constitutions a rule that any amendments to a proposed bill have to be germane to the bill's topic. Our Congress relies on weak parliamentary rules that can be suspended at any time. So it's not that hard for someone to kill a bill by attaching a poison pill rider that has nothing to do with the problem supposedly being addressed.