01-28-2016, 09:57 PM
$tevie wrote:
This is certainly serious but some people are trying to make it sound worse than it is...I wish the media wouldn't try to scare the Bejeesus out of people by running scary headlines with sketchy "facts"...
When the Brazilian government tells citizens to stop having children for the next two years and the World Health Organization says the spread is "explosive", it's not good. Fears of epidemic—at least in Latin American countries—are not unfounded. Evidence indicates that there are a few vector-borne diseases that are set to become international health problems that may even come to the U.S., partly related to climate change. These include Zika, Yellow Fever, and Chagas.