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Ready or not: Summer's coming, and so is Zika
By Lisa FalkenbergMay 21, 2016 Updated: May 22, 2016 12:12am
Dr. David Persse was watching his 5-year-old grandson playing in the backyard recently when he noticed the child wasn't wearing mosquito repellent.
When he asked his son-in-law about it, he said the young man, whom he described as "very intelligent," seemed to shrug it off, telling Persse: "He's not going to get pregnant."
The response didn't go over too well with Persse, who happens to be Houston's public health authority and the city's unofficial Zika czar. The doctor explained that if the boy got bitten, he could become a reservoir for the virus that could infect another mosquito that could infect a pregnant woman.
Besides that, he said, we don't fully understand the Zika virus. If it can affect a developing fetal brain, perhaps it can do the same to a developing 5-year-old brain.
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http://www.houstonchronicle.com/new...ot-Summer-s-coming-and-so-is-Zika-7925778.php
By Lisa FalkenbergMay 21, 2016 Updated: May 22, 2016 12:12am
Dr. David Persse was watching his 5-year-old grandson playing in the backyard recently when he noticed the child wasn't wearing mosquito repellent.
When he asked his son-in-law about it, he said the young man, whom he described as "very intelligent," seemed to shrug it off, telling Persse: "He's not going to get pregnant."
The response didn't go over too well with Persse, who happens to be Houston's public health authority and the city's unofficial Zika czar. The doctor explained that if the boy got bitten, he could become a reservoir for the virus that could infect another mosquito that could infect a pregnant woman.
Besides that, he said, we don't fully understand the Zika virus. If it can affect a developing fetal brain, perhaps it can do the same to a developing 5-year-old brain.
...
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/new...ot-Summer-s-coming-and-so-is-Zika-7925778.php