Culex mosquitoes are 20 times more prevalent than Aedes and they blanket all of the U.S., Canada, and Europe. And yes, the Zika virus has been found in its salivary glands. What's more: the CDC has been using a flawed Zika test that misses about 40 percent of infections.
It's not surprising that since the Zika virus has been found in semen for over six months, the virus continues to replicate in the male reproductive tract. And in mice, it appears to wreck havoc - destroying not only stem cells and sperm - but the cells that provide support and structure to the testes.
When various public health authorities and the media repeatedly said that the Zika virus is only in the bloodstream for a few days to a week, I wondered how that could be possible. Every week or two, a new finding revealed the Zika virus seems to hide in certain regions of the body - even becoming more virulent in some cases.
If a vaccine - over 20 years in the making - had the potential to cause a deadly cross-enhancement of the Zika virus whenever the Culex species of mosquitoes transmitted it, would the WHO and CDC try to keep that a secret? What if billions of dollars were at stake?
A collection of products that will help fund Zika research. My petition is CDC Cover-up: Zika Test Fails to Detect 40 Percent of Infections (Enact Travel Bans). Banner image: Map of the predicted distribution of Aedes aegypti in 2015 [Public Domain]. Culex mosquito ranges were hand-drawn by me, RoseWrites, on October 13th, 2016. Kindly contact me at Zazzle to ask about reuse of my work. Thank you.
After compiling months of research, I have grown completely disgusted with how our public health authorities (the WHO, CDC, and Health Canada) have been addressing the Zika crisis. They are employed by us, taxpayers, to protect all citizens (including pregnant women and their babies) from diseases.
After reading Dr. Megha Sharma, a neonatal-perinatal medicine fellow at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, suggest people follow reliable social media channels like the CDC and WHO [about Zika], and be more skeptical of other kinds of videos [or websites] posted online, I felt compelled to detail how the CDC and WHO have failed to protect global public health.
After listening to Dr. Constancia Ayres from Fiocruz in Brazil and Dr. Fiona Hunter from Brock University in Canada explain how the Zika virus is more related to Culex-associate viruses (like West Nile and Saint Louis encephalitis), I decided to design a fun mug set for couples to help raise money for Zika research.
After listening to Dr. Constancia Ayres from Fiocruz in Brazil and Dr. Fiona Hunter from Brock University in Canada explain the logic behind why the Zika virus is more apt to be spread by Culex mosquitoes rather than solely by Aedes mosquitoes, I decided to design a fun shirt for entomologists and students of entomology to help raise money for Zika research.
After researching and publishing "Zika Shrivels Testes, Drops Testosterone, and May Cause Infertility" on InfoBarrel (under my pen name RoseWrites), I designed some products geared to men. With almost all of the focus on pregnant women lately, I feel strongly that men deserve to know what scientists have recently uncovered about the Zika virus and how it could affect them.