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Originally Posted by cb at sea
The Zika mosquito IS spreading north....so it is a real thing. You are pregnant, and need to take precautions. Those of use who are not pregnant and have no intention of becoming so...or are past our "prime" really don't need to worry THAT much. Yes..anyone can get Zika, but it doesn't have the same ramifications for us that it might for your unborn baby. A man with Zika (who might not even know he has it) can give it, thru sex, to his partner....just so you know.
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I think what they worried about is that a person, including who aren't or can't get pregnant, has Zika and then is bitten again by an uninfected mosquito and that now infected mosquito bites a pregnant woman?
It makes you wonder how many travel related cases of Zika there really are when 80% of infected people show no symptoms at all and would therefore never get tested to begin with? I suppose this is how they think it will spread to the local non-Zika carrying mosquitoes.
Spraying is probably about their only solution to this, or don't ever get bitten by a mosquito even if you cannot be pregnant yourself?
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