Saturday, February 20, 2016

NONE OF THE 3,177 PREGNANT WOMEN IN COLOMBIA HAVE GIVEN BIRTH TO BABIES WITH MICROCEPHALY

With the information provided by Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos, the U.N. and feminist organizations that promoted abortion as a means to deal with this issue, are being put on the spot.

The “Aedes Aegypti” mosquito, whose bite transmits Zika, dengue and Chikungunya virus. (Photograph: Jeffrey Arguedas / EFE).
In the midst of an intense debate about Zika virus and abortion in Latin America, facts have started to contradict the theory disseminated by feminist organizations and the U.N. that requested to facilitate access to abortion for pregnant women in order to avoid birth defects caused by the aforementioned virus.

In Colombia, the second country of the world, after Brazil, with the highest number (31,555) of registered cases of the disease, not one of the 3,177 women who were diagnosed with the Zika virus have given birth to newborns with the congenital defect known as microcephaly.

President Juan Manuel Santos has made an official statement of the matter and also confirmed that an American medical-scientific team is due to arrive in the country to help with the investigations of the mosquito-transmitted virus.

THE OFFICIAL VERSION BEGINS TO FALTER

With this data the theory provided by Brazilian authorities, who believe that the virus is behind the unusual increase of cases of microcephaly, begins to falter. In Brazil there are over one and a half million people infected, and the information given by the authorities has helped the WHO to declare a virus-related emergency.

The absence of cases of microcephaly related to Zika would only prove that “policies using the virus to implement population control and abortion are a hopeless distraction. The real roots of this pandemic are in poverty, and this is where the policies have to change”, stated Danelia Cardona, who is a psychiatrist and head of the Department of Promotion and Defense of Life of the Bishops’ Conference of Colombia.

Currently, the virus has spread to 20 American countries. Only one out of four people affected by the disease experiences symptoms, and the rate of hospitalization is low. The symptoms presented are mild: low fever and conjunctivitis with a duration ranging from 2 to 7 days.


Source: Actuall.com By: María Isabel Magaña, correspondent in Latin America. She has worked for El Mundo, Valor Futuro, Spanish news agency EFE and Noticias RCN. She is also the editor of Periódico Directo.

Source of information: Blog CATOLICIDAD http://www.catolicidad.com/2016/02/terroristas-del-estado-islamico.html. Translated from Spanish by Fabiola Lozano.