FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WOWO): A panel of experts will be hosting a community conversation on Zike at Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne. The panel is titled: Zika: What We Know and What We’re Doing about It. It will be held on Tuesday, April 4, at 7:30 p.m., in the Walb Classic Ballroom at IPFW.
The conversation is meant to educate people on the latest news about the Zika virus, including risks and treatment, and how research has progressed. This event is free and open to the public.
Panelists include:
- Dr. Deborah McMahan, health commissioner, Fort Wayne-Allen County Department of Health
- Elliott Blumenthal, Ph.D., associate professor of biology, IPFW
- Dr. James E. Cameron, medical director, Lutheran Children’s Hospital NICU and medical staff president, Lutheran Hospital
- Dr. Robyn Schmucker, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Parkview Hospital
- Dr. Melissa Rice, Neonatology, Parkview Hospital
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Until Culex are acknowledged as Zika vectors and birds (esp. red-whiskered bulbuls) are investigated as reservoir hosts of Zika, nothing will change in Florida or southeast Asia. These regions (and soon, California) will be hotbeds of infection for years to come.
What the WHO and CDC failed to do was take to heart the evidence submitted by Drs. Ayres, Hunter, Guedes, Guo et al., and just recently, Evans et al.
No infected mosquitoes were collected from Yap States and French Polynesia during their Zika outbreaks. They simply ASSUMED that Aedes species were vectors, although they never fulfilled the criteria. Source: Dr. Walter S. Leal’s paper “Zika mosquito vectors: the jury is still out”.
Culex mosquitoes in Brazil and China are spreading Zika (which means birds are likely reservoir hosts). What’s worse: Wolbachia that is acquired by any species after (or perhaps along with) a Zika infection is probably enhanced by Wolbachia.
Source: “More Proof Wolbachia Infected Mosquito Releases Might Be Causing the Most Devastating Zika Infections”
My latest (includes citations): http://www.infobarrel.com/Tracing_Zikas_Path_to_Florida_Culex_and_Wolbachia