In my attempt to get all my work submitted before this evening's deadline I came across this Texas Tribune post. As mentioned, the first identified case of Zika was found in the Rio Grande Valley on a women who tested positive for the virus; making Texas the first to see this locally transmitted disease. It seems like the recent topics mentioned on Texas Tribune about the Rio Grande Valley are just unpleasant. Zina is serious virus that can be spread onto the fetus if the mother is bit which in turn could cause the child to be born with severe brain malformations. This post portrays the danger that comes with those small, evil, blood sucking animals we call mosquitoes. A brief history on Zika: the name is derived from Uganda where it was first discovered in 1947. The symptoms are mild if any, but a few mentioned on this post were inducing fever, itchy rash, joint pain, and eye redness. It is primarily spread by female mosquitoes which sole purpose is to ruin the lives of babies and beautiful pregnant mothers in order to reproduce. The Centers of Disease Control have strongly urged all pregnant mothers to stay out of Brownsville Texas as they have now confirmed over 200 cases which 5 have been linked with birth defects. Although Zika shouldn't be taken lightly, there still isn't enough evidence of widespread complications. However, CDC is still encouraging mothers to frequently get tested to prevent the disease from spreading. Zika is linked to a recent death of a baby girl in Houston Texas whose mother traveled from Latin America.
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