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Re: Zika
« Reply #50 on: November 19, 2016, 05:57:30 AM »
]=http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/18/health/who-ends-zika-public-health-emergency/index.html[Who Ends Zika Public Health Emergency]

Click bait headline from CNN - buuuut does support the fact that Zika, well a terrible fuckin' sexually transmitted disease, may not have been the global pandemic it was championed to be.

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Re: Zika
« Reply #51 on: November 19, 2016, 06:52:46 AM »
]=http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/18/health/who-ends-zika-public-health-emergency/index.html[Who Ends Zika Public Health Emergency]

Click bait headline from CNN - buuuut does support the fact that Zika, well a terrible fuckin' sexually transmitted disease, may not have been the global pandemic it was championed to be.


Here's the original World Health Organisation story -
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/statements/2016/zika-fifth-ec/en/

Basically the WHO has made an administrative change in the terminology of its zika response from "emergency" to "significant enduring public health challenge requiring intense action", reissuing its temporary recommendations and escalating its initial response into a sustained programme of work.  It describes zika as "a highly significant long term problem".

I'm not seeing the good news.

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Re: Zika
« Reply #52 on: November 19, 2016, 07:18:56 AM »
]=http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/18/health/who-ends-zika-public-health-emergency/index.html[Who Ends Zika Public Health Emergency]

Click bait headline from CNN - buuuut does support the fact that Zika, well a terrible fuckin' sexually transmitted disease, may not have been the global pandemic it was championed to be.


Here's the original World Health Organisation story -
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/statements/2016/zika-fifth-ec/en/

Basically the WHO has made an administrative change in the terminology of its zika response from "emergency" to "significant enduring public health challenge requiring intense action", reissuing its temporary recommendations and escalating its initial response into a sustained programme of work.  It describes zika as "a highly significant long term problem".

I'm not seeing the good news.

The good news is that, after research, the WHO has decided to continue to address the issue in a long-term way.