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MEDICAL: DISEASES: ZIKA VIRUS :
UNITED STATES: TERRITORIES: PUERTO RICO:
Zika Virus Spreads More Rapidly In Puerto Rico
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Zika Virus Spreads More Rapidly In Puerto Rico
August 1, 20164:27 PM ET
Heard on All Things Considered
NPR
http://www.npr.org/2016/08/01/488273976/
zika-virus-spreads-more-rapidly-in-puerto-rico
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/hcs5z3w
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NPR's Audie Cornish talks with New York Times science and health reporter
Donald McNeil Jr. about the status of the Zika epidemic in Puerto Rico.
McNeil Jr. reports that while there are around 5,500 confirmed infections,
the actual numbers are far greater, and many residents are highly
skeptical of the government's actions to combat the virus.
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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST:
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In Puerto Rico, the CDC estimates that thousands of people are becoming
infected with Zika every day. That includes up to 50 pregnant women per
day. New York Times health and science reporter Donald McNeil Jr. just
spent a week in Puerto Rico. He says people there aren't doing enough to
protect themselves because they think the threat has been exaggerated. And
he says trust in the CDC is low, especially after it endorsed the spring
of an insecticide called Naled.
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DONALD MCNEIL JR: Naled's an organophosphate. It's, you know, somewhere in
the middle of toxicity for sprays. It's highly toxic to bees, to birds and
to freshwater fish. And the Puerto Ricans, who have a long and a
legitimate history of grievances against the United States government for
things like testing agent orange in the jungles of Puerto Rico before it
used it in Vietnam and a longstanding policy of sterilizing Puerto Rican
women who'd had more than two or three kids, were extremely suspicious of
this.
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And since the CDC couldn't say anything other than, we hope it will work,
and since it hadn't worked in Puerto Rico in 1987 when they used it to
fight dengue outbreak there, people rebelled. They didn't want it.
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So hundreds marched. They wore bee masks and gas masks and said, this is,
you know, the U.S. experimenting on us again. And also there's a lot of
sensitivity because the United States government just declared that it's
going to take over Puerto Rico's economy and create a fiscal control board
to run their finances. So they do feel like an oppressed colony with a
history of bad behavior on the part of the U.S. government.
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MCNEIL JR: So a public backlash against aerial spraying - what are some of
the other mitigation efforts that you say failed?
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MCNEIL JR: Well, they announced in February this big program to fight the
mosquito, and it was going to be, go into cemeteries and get rid of all
standing water in cemeteries and collect millions of old tires on the
island and put them someplace where they couldn't collect water and breed
mosquitoes. They were going to try to put screens on the windows of all
the schools where high school girls went to school. They were going to go
to the house of every pregnant woman and try to put screens on that and do
insecticide fogging and larvicides.
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But it was done municipality by municipality. There's 78 municipalities in
Puerto Rico. It worked in some cases, but overall it didn't work at all.
And now they're seeing 2 percent of all the donated blood in Puerto Rico
comes from somebody who's been infected in the last 10 days.
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CORNISH: Two percent of all the donated blood in Puerto Rico - so people
who are donating blood they think for a good cause - their blood is
unusable.
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MCNEIL JR: Right.
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CORNISH: The CDC has said that Puerto Rico essentially has no integrated
mosquito control program at this point. From what you saw, is that the
case, or have there have been steps taken, say, in the last week or two?
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MCNEIL JR: Well, I was there one week ago, and I would say that there was
not an integrated pest-control program. First of all, it's broken up into
78 municipalities, and there's a lot of infighting and a lot of finger
pointing. And you know, just look at the facts on the ground. The mosquito
is rampant.
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The one thing that's likely to keep the problem down is that women are not
getting pregnant nearly as often as they were before. That seems to be
having an effect even though it's not CDC policy to tell people not to get
pregnant. But they are actually in fact helping people not get pregnant by
bringing a lot of birth control to the island, so it's having an effect.
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