Zika Virus

[HVC]

South Carolina kills millions of bees as it tries to combat zika. Ah politicians, are there any people more stupid?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/04/zika-mosquito-neurotoxin-kills-bees-livelihoods-beekeepers

[dps]

Ah politicians, are there any people more stupid?

Americans teaching "English" in South Korea?

[Fate]

http://www.pri.org/stories/2016-11-01/zika-s-million-dollar-question-where-are-birth-defects

Summary: Brazil saw a spike in reported microcephaly cases in 2015/6 in two states and had a Zika outbreak around the same time. The rest of South America also had a Zika outbreak but hasn't seen a similar spike in microcephaly cases. Per capita Puerto Rico has a Zika infection rate 8 times higher than Brazil... yet there's no corresponding microcephaly epidemic.

Maybe there's something special about those two states in Brazil, maybe it was all just hysteria. Time will tell...