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(NaturalNews) Government leaders in Brazil, the epicenter of the Zika virus outbreak that’s being blamed on infected mosquitoes, are having second thoughts about its cause, new reports indicate. After noticing anomalous trends with regards to symptoms of the disease and where they’re breaking out and spreading, epidemiologists and vector specialists now believe that environmental pollution is a more likely cause of the outbreak – not necessarily mosquitoes.
Either that, or some combination of mosquitoes and chemical toxicity is to blame for the wave of birth defects, miscarriages and other pregnancy-related problems being seen in pockets throughout the country, but not everywhere. Some areas are seeing high numbers of these horrific health outcomes while many others aren’t, even though mosquitoes are present in all of them – and nowhere in Brazil are health experts seeing the “explosion” of Zika cases that was expected based on the mosquito narrative.
Brazil’s Ministry of Health has already launched an investigation to look into the cluster of babies born with brain defects associated with the Zika virus. Though it’s expected to take several months to reach a conclusion, the inquiry aims to solve the puzzle of what, exactly, is causing pregnant mothers to suffer perinatal abnormalities, and their babies to suffer birth defects: Zika, environmental pollution or some combination of both?
“We can see there is a kind of cluster in [part of] the northeast region with high prevalence and high severity, of miscarriage and congenital malformation that is really severe; but we didn’t find this in other states – even the [adjacent] states didn’t see the same situation as in the epicenter,” Fatima Marinho, coordinator of epidemiological analysis and information at Brazil’s Ministry of Health, told the press.
“We were preparing for an explosion and it didn’t come.”
Zika scare an excuse to blast populations with more toxic chemicals
The Brazilian ministry speculates that co-infection with other viruses like dengue or chikungunya might be another possibility, or perhaps some combination of chemical poisoning and viral infection. In either case, more investigation is needed before governments start doling out experimental Zika vaccines that might just exacerbate the problem by spreading more disease.
There’s also the intentional chemical poisoning theory – the idea that the entire thing is staged to make an excuse for more aerial spraying endeavors. It’s already apparent that anything involving mosquitoes or insects is typically given the chemical carpet bomb treatment.
Zika has been around forever, of course, and nobody’s batted an eye about it until just recently. This is because Zika, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) openly admits, is typically mild and rarely even shows symptoms. If it does show symptoms, sufferers typically get over them quickly and are awarded with lifelong immunity as a result – and naturally, all without a vaccine.
Another easy way to avoid the worst consequences of infectious disease, and perhaps avoid it altogether, is simply to detoxify. And one simple way to do this is using an ancient Ayurvedic technique known as oil pulling.
But these inconvenient truths don’t sell vaccines, and they certainly don’t provide excuses for governments to send planes around to spray anti-mosquito chemicals in fulfillment of lucrative contracts they’ve signed with chemical corporations. It’s about money, power and control, after all – all of which come through selling fear. And Zika, it seems, is the latest Ebola. Or bird flu. Or swine flu. Or whatever happens to come down the pipeline as an alleged threat to the perpetuity of humanity.
Brazil seems to have the right idea: Rather than panicking and trying to jab everyone with untested and potentially deadly vaccines, why don’t we instead take a closer look at the multiple factors that are likely contributing to the problem? Then, a more sound, common sense solution can be determined rather than a panicked, reactionary one that could make things worse.
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”This program is probably one of the best on the market, especially for the price.”
Genetically modified mosquitoes that have been released in Brazil, and may soon be released in Florida to combat the Zika virus, have the potential to directly inject modified DNA into any humans they bite.
The lab-bred GM Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, according to Oxitec – the biotech company that breeds them – are genetically programed to mate with wild females and transfer a gene that is fatal to any offspring.
But critics of the technique say too little is known about the potential for long-term environmental damage, as well as how humans will react to the injection of the gene if they are bitten by a GM Aedes aegypti mosquito.
The Zika virus is not new. As reported by Collective Evolution, it has been around since at least 1947. What's more, the virus is marketed by two companies, and the Rockefeller Foundation owns the patent on the virus.
There is also the fact that the virus – which is generally weak, causing mostly mild symptoms that disappear in a few days – may not be the cause behind a rash of babies born with microcephaly in Brazil, where the current outbreak began. There could be other environmental factors working in conjunction with the Zika virus, or something else altogether.
Microcephaly limited to just one region of Brazil; Zika might not be sole cause
"We can see there is a kind of cluster in [part of] the northeast region with high prevalence and high severity, of miscarriage and congenital malformation that is really severe," Fatima Marinho, coordinator of epidemiological analysis and information at Brazil's Ministry of Health told The Globe and Mail.
"But we didn't find this in other states – even the [adjacent] states didn't see the same situation as in the epicenter. ... We were preparing for an explosion and it didn't come," Marinho added.
"So we started to think that in this central area maybe more than Zika is causing this intensity and severity. This is an area that was under attack by viruses: Some parts even had measles," during the time the bulk of the microcephaly cases arose, Marinho said.
Brazilian researchers won't know the answer for months, but in the meantime, additional DNA-changing mosquitoes are due to be set loose in Florida, where some homegrown Zika cases have turned up. But thus far there have been no U.S. cases of Zika-linked microcephaly.
As reported by CBS News, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has "confirmed" that Zika virus causes some babies to be born with abnormally small heads, but the Brazilian Health Ministry says that researchers are not entirely certain that is correct. Also, scientists do know that other viruses and environmental toxins can cause the condition.'Zika hysteria dominating the scientifically illiterate media'
In recent days, Natural News founder and editor Mike Adams, the Health Ranger and author of the new book, Food Forensics, reported that the lack of microcephaly cases in other places where the Zika virus has been prevalent proves that the "doomsday" scenario being painted by the CDC and others is evidence of a "massive hoax."
And many are concerned about the transfer to humans of the genetic code carried by GM mosquitoes: What effect will the gene have on the ecosystems in which humans dwell?
That's because the tactic of introducing the GM mosquitoes into the environment to kill Zika-carrying breeds is not 100 percent foolproof. Some of Oxitec's own research notes that the antibiotic tetracycline, which is very pervasive in Brazil's livestock sector, could render as many as 15 percent of the GM mosquitoes ineffective. But the natural order of things is still affected by the passing along of DNA.
"Zika hysteria dominated the scientifically illiterate media, in much the same way that the climate change hoax also grabs headlines," writes Adams. "In both cases, you have the combination of false fear and bad science, amplified by a scientifically illiterate (but politically compliant) mainstream media, and believed by a gullible population of cowardly consumers who fall for every quack science hoax perpetrated on them by dishonest government."
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A report from the Argentine doctors’ organisation, Physicians in the Crop-Sprayed Towns, challenges the theory that the Zika virus epidemic in Brazil is the cause of the increase in the birth defect microcephaly among newborns.
The increase in this birth defect, in which the baby is born with an abnormally small head and often has brain damage, was quickly linked to the Zika virus by the Brazilian Ministry of Health. However, according to the Physicians in the Crop-Sprayed Towns, the Ministry failed to recognise that in the area where most sick people live, a chemical larvicide that produces malformations in mosquitoes was introduced into the drinking water supply in 2014. This poison, Pyriproxyfen, is used in a State-controlled programme aimed at eradicating disease-carrying mosquitoes.
The Physicians added that the Pyriproxyfen is manufactured by Sumitomo Chemical, a Japanese “strategic partner” of Monsanto. Pyriproxyfen is a growth inhibitor of mosquito larvae, which alters the development process from larva to pupa to adult, thus generating malformations in developing mosquitoes and killing or disabling them. It acts as an insect juvenile hormone or juvenoid, and has the effect of inhibiting the development of adult insect characteristics (for example, wings and mature external genitalia) and reproductive development. It is an endocrine disruptor and is teratogenic (causes birth defects), according to the Physicians.
The Physicians commented: “Malformations detected in thousands of children from pregnant women living in areas where the Brazilian state added Pyriproxyfen to drinking water are not a coincidence, even though the Ministry of Health places a direct blame on the Zika virus for this damage.”
They also noted that Zika has traditionally been held to be a relatively benign disease that has never before been associated with birth defects, even in areas where it infects 75% of the population.
Larvicide the most likely culprit in birth defects
Pyriproxyfen is a relatively new introduction to the Brazilian environment; the microcephaly increase is a relatively new phenomenon. So the larvicide seems a plausible causative factor in microcephaly – far more so than GM mosquitoes, which some have blamed for the Zika epidemic and thus for the birth defects. There is no sound evidence to support the notion promoted by some sources that GM mosquitoes can cause Zika, which in turn can cause microcephaly. In fact, out of 404 confirmed microcephaly cases in Brazil, only 17 (4.2%) tested positive for the Zika virus.
Brazilian health experts agree Pyriproxyfen is chief suspect
The Argentine Physicians’ report, which also addresses the Dengue fever epidemic in Brazil, concurs with the findings of a separate report on the Zika outbreak by the Brazilian doctors’ and public health researchers’ organisation, Abrasco.
Abrasco also names Pyriproxyfen as a likely cause of the microcephaly. It condemns the strategy of chemical control of Zika-carrying mosquitoes, which it says is contaminating the environment as well as people and is not decreasing the numbers of mosquitoes. Abrasco suggests that this strategy is in fact driven by the commercial interests of the chemical industry, which it says is deeply integrated into the Latin American ministries of health, as well as the World Health Organization and the Pan American Health Organisation.
Abrasco names the British GM insect company Oxitec as part of the corporate lobby that is distorting the facts about Zika to suit its own profit-making agenda. Oxitec sells GM mosquitoes engineered for sterility and markets them as a disease-combatting product – a strategy condemned by the Argentine Physicians as “a total failure, except for the company supplying mosquitoes”.
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”This program is probably one of the best on the market, especially for the price.”
To put it plainly, Zika is good for business. As is the case with any major crisis, if you're able to perpetuate enough fear, you can convince people to buy or go along with just about anything. In the case of Zika, that means harmful chemical exposure and experimental vaccination.
The Zika virus is simply the latest version of West Nile, Ebola, swine flu or even measles. If you take a moment to consider who exactly is profiting off these crises, you'll see that it tends to be a repeat of the very same industries.
"The manufactured Zika crisis is a windfall for chemical companies, vaccine companies and disease fear mongers. This is how they use tactics of info-terror to reap billions in profits while poisoning the people and the planet," says the Health Ranger.
Below is a list of industries and agendas flourishing under Zika.
1. Increased chemical use
Since the Zika fear mongering first began, the public has witnessed a substantial increase in aerial spraying to combat disease-carrying mosquitoes, and Florida is being hit the hardest.
Congress wasted no time in trying to pass legislation that would have weakened already weak regulations for dispensing harmful chemicals into the air, soil and water.
House Republicans used the Zika hysteria to rebrand legislation that permitted the dumping of pesticides into bodies of water, violating key provisions of the Clean Water Act. They tried passing the bill on five different occasions only to succeed after renaming it the Zika Control Act in May.
Although the bill was vetoed by Democrats in the Senate, "public health" agencies including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continue to push for more chemicals.
Miami is currently under a chemical assault thanks to recommendations from the EPA to spray a harmful insecticide linked to paralysis in animals. Mosquito control reported that it's conducting indefinite aerial spray missions dumping a chemical called Naled.
Naled is extremely toxic to humans and wildlife, particularly upon inhalation. Studies indicate that the chemical is 20 times more toxic when inhaled versus when ingested through food and water – and it's prone to drift, traveling up to half a mile away from its original application site.
The insecticide is deadly to aquatic life, as well as pollinator insects such as honeybees. In short, spraying Naled into the environment and on people does far more harm than Zika ever could.
The most sickening part about it is that it's not even effective! A study from the New York Department of Health found that aerial spraying of Naled reduced mosquito populations temporarily. But after 11 years of spraying, disease-carrying mosquitoes increased 15-fold.
The government absolutely knows this, so why is it okay to douse people with a deadly insecticide that doesn't work to kill mosquitoes?
Profits, of course. Naled is made by an American company called AMVAC Chemical Company, owned by Vanguard Corporation.
One of its subsidiaries is Environmental Mediation, which advises clients on how to win government approval for dispensing its deadly products.2. Vaccine development
Another industry that has a lot to gain from Zika is the pharmaceutical industry, which has been working around the clock to fast track a vaccine that could ultimately be given to millions of people around the globe, including pregnant women.
In June, Congress proposed spending $1.1 billion in taxpayer money to combat Zika, funding disease research, as well as vaccine development.
Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology say that they have already developed a vaccine that is effective not only against Zika, but also against Ebola and swine flu. The vaccine is DNA-based, making it even riskier than traditional immunizations.
Some scientists suggest that DNA-vaccines could cause "insertional mutagenesis," meaning a mutation could occur "due to the unnatural interaction of new genetic material with healthy genes." These vaccines may also increase the risk of cancer, activating "oncogenes while switching off tumor suppressor genes."
The establishment's assertion that Zika causes severe birth defects means pregnant women would likely be test subjects for vaccine experimentation – making some 6.3 million American women eligible for the controversial program.3. GM mosquitoes
Ironically, the very company blamed for creating the Zika crisis is now profiting from it. Three years ago, the British biotech company Oxitec released thousands of genetically modified mosquitoes in Brazil to combat disease-carrying insects.
The mosquitoes are genetically modified to contain a "self-limiting" gene that prevents the Aedes aegypti species from producing offspring. Oxitec says 95 percent of the mosquitoes die before reaching adulthood, preventing reproduction.
But the math doesn't quite add up. Oxitec said that the insects would decrease up to 80 percent of Aedes aegypti species. However, scientists believe that very same species is now responsible for spreading Zika.
Despite speculation that Oxitec may have caused Zika to spread, the company expanded operations in Brazil, opening a new mosquito factory in Piracicaba. The insects were also released in Malaysia, India and the Cayman Islands.
The Florida Keys may very well become the next destination pending approval from the state's mosquito control district, which is set to vote on the proposal this fall.4. Abortion increases
Another less obvious industry that stands to benefit from Zika is Planned Parenthood. People are so fearful about the potential of Zika-induced birth-defects that they're willing to compromise their beliefs on abortion, according to a recent poll.
Americans said that they would be okay with late-term abortions if the fetus was harmed by Zika. About 60 percent of respondents said women should have the right to terminate a pregnancy after 24 weeks if testing found signs of microcephaly, a birth-defect resulting in decreased head size – which the establishment insists is caused by Zika.
Americans' willingness to compromise their beliefs on abortion due to Zika could generate more profits for Planned Parenthood, the nation's number one abortion provider.
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