The Zika Virus Is Harmless – It Does Not Cause Birth Defects – We Told You So

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After nearly a year of causing hysteria, mass travel cancellations and unnecessary abortions it finally daunts to “journalists” and “experts”  that the Zika virus is harmless. It can cause a very minor flue – two days of a low fever and uncomfortable feeling for a quarter of those infected – that is all. It does not cause, as was claimed by sensationalists in the media and various self-serving “scientists”, birth defects like microcephaly.

We told you so.

In February we wrote: The Zika Virus Is Harmless – Who Then Benefits From This Media Panic?.

The piece refereed to a Congressional Research Service report and various sound scientific papers. It concluded:

There is absolutely no sane reason for the scary headlines and the panic they cause.The virus is harmless. It is possible, but seems for now very unlikely, that it affects some unborn children. There is absolutely no reason to be concerned about it.

The artificial media panic continued and huge amounts of money were poured into dangerous insecticides to kill mosquitoes (and important pollinators) that did not do any harm. Indeed, generous use of some of these insecticides likely were the very cause of a blip in microencephaly cases in northeastern Brazil.

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In March we wrote: Reading About Zika May Hurt Your Brain.

We listed 35 “news” headlines about potential catastrophes related to a Zika epidemic. The common factor – all those headlines included the miraculous little word may. The pieces were pure speculations though some quoted this or that “expert” who was hunting for new research funds or lobbying for some pharmaceutical or pesticide conglomerate.

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