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IAMNOTADOCTOR
Sep 26, 2013

Lid posted:

the birth defects are the most noted feature, but it also causes paralysis among other symptoms by messing up the nervous system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillain%E2%80%93Barr%C3%A9_syndrome

The flue, soms vaccines and pretty much any infectious disease can rarely cause guillain barre disease. I'm not sure if the reported association stronger than what is to be expected in any infectious disease. Moreover, guillain barre is usually self limiting with a complete remission of symptoms.

I think it's still way to early to be worried about this vector borne disease if your not living in the affected areas. The relation with birth defects is still very preliminary.

Also, nice to see that MIGF is still angry at Chan.

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IAMNOTADOCTOR
Sep 26, 2013

Rap Record Hoarder posted:

Well, humanity had a good run.

This is legitimately scary in a way that Ebola, SARS, etc never really were.

Agreed, but so far SARS is to me still the scariest possible pandemic disease from the last couple of years.

Does anyone know which arthropods can function as a vector and their geographical spread?

IAMNOTADOCTOR
Sep 26, 2013

ukle posted:

CDC lists it as just the Aedes genus of Mosquitoes.

http://www.cdc.gov/zika/transmission/index.html

Did see a composite image a few days ago that combined all the spreads in this paper:

http://elifesciences.org/content/4/e08347

Thanks, informative.

Troutful posted:

I study Aedes mosquitoes for a living, so I'd be happy to answer any questions people have about them.

Physiologically speaking, what are the major differences between the Aedes genus of mosquitos and other mosquito species that make it the primary vector for dengue, zika etc?

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