Zika confirmed in seven pregnant women

Dr.  Johnson said no deaths have been reported  due to the Zika virus
Dr. Johnson said no deaths have been reported due to the Zika virus

Health officials in Dominica are monitoring seven confirmed cases of the Zika virus in pregnant women.

Additionally, there have been two cases of the suspected Zika-related illness, Guillain-Barré syndrome, a sickness in which a person’s own immune system damages the nerve cells, causing muscle weakness, and sometimes, paralysis.

However, Chief Medical Officer, Dr. David Johnson, said the good news is that no deaths have been reported on the island because of Zika.

He said the pregnant women are being monitored and to date, none has delivered a baby with microcephaly, a birth defect in which a baby’s head is smaller than expected and which is said to be related to the Zika virus.

“In Dominica, there is no known case of a pregnant woman who has delivered a microcephaly case, so that is absolutely good news ,” he remarked. “We are monitoring seven confirmed cases of pregnant ladies with the Zika virus with a team of experts at our high risks clinics. These individuals are being monitored on a regular basis and to date, we have none of these cases delivered babies who have been found to be suffering from small head or microcephaly.”

Dr. Johnson noted that one of the women has just delivered “and by all reports the baby is doing fine, showing no signs and symptoms of microcephaly.”

He explained that there were two cases of the suspected Zika-related illness Guillain-Barré syndrome, although he made it clear that it has not been confirmed that they got the illness from the virus itself.

“What I can say to you at this stage is that we had two suspected cases of Zika-associated Guillain-Barré syndrome,” Dr. Johnson explained. “One of the cases we sent to Martinique, the person has been here for at least a month now and that individual is doing very fine. So the person has completely recovered from the signs and symptoms that they had, the muscle weakness etc, associated with the Guillain-Barré syndrome.”

He noted that the other individual was in the Intensive Care Unit but has been discharged to a normal ward since the person has passed the critical stage of the illness. However, that person remains hospitalized.

“We had another case and the person was in the Intensive Care Unit and I am happy to report that individual has since been discharged from the intensive care unit and that individual is on the regular, normal medical ward,” he said. “The person is not yet discharged from the hospital but the person, for all intent and purposes, has passed the critical stage of Guillain-Barré syndrome but we are still managing the individual in terms of some other medical issues that the individual has and the person the person is receiving physiotherapy etc.”

Dr. Johnson said although there are no Zika-related deaths in Dominica and the island is doing fine in terms of managing the virus, more must be done in terms of source reduction of the Aedes Egypti mosquito, the main transmitter of the disease.

“One of our main concerns is to ensure that we can reduce, as far as possible, the breeding sites of the Aedes Egypti mosquito which is the mosquito that is responsible for spreading the Zika virus,” he said.

 

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37 Comments

  1. Dr. Kozan Garne, DSc (microbiology)
    September 18, 2016

    Influenza is the biggest killer of people in 22 states in the USA.

    Influenza, worldwide, each and every year, results in about three to five million cases of severe illness and about 250,000 to 500,000 deaths. Not small heads, DEATHS!

    Put this in the context of the Zika hype and you will understand what is going on.

  2. Total Onslaught - Zika goes All Out
    September 15, 2016

    On September 7th, the CHO tells us that 7 women have Zika??? Before that he told us that 28 people were infected with the virus. The number 28 is made up of 4 7’s. The occult swastika had 4 x 7 in it.
    NOW HOW ON EARTH CAN THIS BE A COINCIDENCE!! How can you not now believe that this puppet doctor is not just a mere slave of the wider powers the be that follow Satan and he MUST know that zika was engineered by the USA in 1947 (19+47 = 66).

    The Nrs. 3, 7, 9, 11, 13, 33, 39. Multiple of the numbers have special meaning to the Illuminati. The Bilderberg Group has core of 39 members who are broken into 3 groups of 13 members in each group. The core of 39 answers to the 13 who make up the Policy Committee. Take special notice that the 13 members of the Policy Committee answer to the Round Table of Nine. You know that the original number of states in the United States of America was 13. The Constitution has 7 articles and was signed by 39 members of the Constitutional…

    • Numerology and What is Behind Zika
      September 22, 2016

      Also.

      a) 28 people were infected with Zika (4×7 is 28)
      b) 2 of the 28 people were pregnant (2-28=26 (2×13 is 26)
      c) On the 7th of September 2016, 7 pregnant women had the virus (7(day)+7(month)+7 (year “16”)=777.

      The numbers 13, 7 and multiples thereof have special significance for the satanist illuminati. These sc**bags work by numbers. It is their code to tell us that they are behind the events.

      Now if you think that the numbers the CMO is dishing out to us are just coincidences, you deserve whatever fate his masters have in store for you.

      God bless!

    • Numerology and What is Behind Zika
      September 22, 2016

      The the uninitiated, September is number 7 in Latin!

  3. Total Onslaught - Zika goes Saudi Arabia
    September 15, 2016

    Pesticides Sprayed from by Planes to Combat Zika
    ——————————————————–

    http://www.caribbean360.com/news/protests-use-mosquito-spray-rejected-puerto-rico-banned-eu

    Problem, reaction, solultion! The link above will tell you that the government of the USA has authorised the spraying from planes of pesticides designed to kill the mosquitoes that they tell us carry the zika virus.
    However, it seems that the very same pesticides are responsible for the illnesses attributed to the zika.

    Smell a rat? I smell a big fat one. First there Zika is created in 1947 by the US from the blood of monkeys; it is then patented, it then emerges worldwide in 2016 and coincidentally can be purchased online via the US ATCC website, then we are told not to get pregnant and that zika can be transmitted via sexual intercourse.

    Now are you guy really stupid not to work out what is going on?

  4. Peter Kamet
    September 11, 2016

    HIV CAN BE SPREAD BY MOSQUITOES
    —————————————–

    A question for Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque. Are you aware that the HIV virus can be spread by mosquitoes? After all the mozzie bites an infected person and takes the infected blood into his tummy. And just as if the virus was transmitted by a ‘used needle’, he then bites/ stings an uninfected person and passes the virus on to them.

    That being the case, we now don’t only have to worry about Zika now. Get an HIV test now, you probably have the virus like many other Dominican’s now.

    Life is getting rough, don’t you think?

  5. Prof. John Ahmed-Zahran, DSc. (forensic microbiology)
    September 8, 2016

    Dominicans deserve Zika, Ebola, Yellow Fever and all these diseases cultured from the blood of monkeys. They refuse to appreciate the facts given by someone in this forum – John Quentin-Smith – who has bothered to do the research into these great and evil manufactured diseases that are afflicting us.

    Have any one of you idiots checked out that Zika, Yellow Fever, Ebola, CAN ALL BE PURCHASED ONLINE??? Do you care? Are you too thick to work out why is it that a ‘virus’ that has been around since 1947 and was created from the blood of monkeys by a US backed research organisation, is now an ‘epidemic’ and can be bought online? Are you all really too stupid to work out what the game is here??

    I guess you are! May God and your families forgive you.

  6. September 8, 2016

    Are governments issuing any warnings about travel to nations that have Zika?

    I would expect governments to mandate Travel Agencies to inform customers about nations that could be dangerous to visit.

    If the virus is as wide spread as some claim it would be enough to almost put international travel on hold. We don’t want this. But we must accept that we are dealing here with a very serious life and death situation. There are more important things than political correctness.

    Sincerely, Rev. Donald Hill. Evangelist. (An international traveller and frequent visitor to the Caribbean.)

    ADMIN: The Canadian government has warned about traveling to Dominica: https://dominicanewsonline.com/news/homepage/news/health/canadian-govt-issues-travel-advisory-to-dominica-because-of-zika/

    • Prof. John Ahmed-Zahran, DSc. (forensic microbiology)
      September 8, 2016

      And so has the British government.

  7. Polls Archive
    September 8, 2016

    Oh lord here come the Zika ‘truthers’….smh.

    • Petrie Disi
      September 10, 2016

      Best you can say without being bothered to check our the veracity of the very insightful information being given by the posters.

      I guess you believe that we came from fishes, the earth is a globe, men landed on the moon, aliens are out there (more intelligent than us of course although NO ONE has seen one to date). That we have spacecraft on Mars taking selfies when planes on earth are being lost routinely and despite the most we have drilled down into the earth is 8 miles?

      A story for you. Back in the old days a man was at a posh party in London. He went up to the Duke of Westminster and said: “Mr. Smith I presume?”. The Duke responded: “You believe that, you can believe anything”.

      A tip for you. The Zika vaccine is on sale in Puerto Rico. Be sure to get it and make certain that you and your family take it in very large doses. In the meantime, you may want to note the Brazil and Venezuela are recording deaths linked to the vaccine.

  8. John Quentin-Smith, PhD (historian)
    September 8, 2016

    If you go to https://www.atcc.org, you can buy the zika virus online. Now, ask yourself why you can buy the virus online and think again about what you are being told about zika being spread by mosquitoes. Again, ask yourself whether ‘zika’ is responsible for what they say it is??

    Zika was created by the USA back in 1947 – in Uganda! It was cultured from the blood of monkeys. That being the case, why is it such a big thing now??

    Here are the search results for zika on the ATCC website. Go buy the virus and enjoy!

    Qty:
    1
    Add to Cart

    Zika virus (ATCC® VR-1838™)

    ATCC® Number: VR-1838™
    Classification: Flaviviridae, Flavivirus
    Product Format: frozen 1.0 mL
    Biosafety Level: 2
    Source: Blood of a rhesus monkey which became infected while stationed as a sentinel in forest near Entebbe, Uganda, 1947
    Effect on Host:
    CPE, Refractile cell rounding
    Year of Origin: 1947
    For-Profit: $354.00Non-Profit: $295.00

    • September 8, 2016

      We are only now hearing of Zika because cases were not being reported before. It was not known as a disease. There was no evidence of it spreading.

      It is highly unlikely it is a man made disease any more than any other virus. It would be difficult to keep something like this secret.

      Viruses have life. They have all the signs of intelligent devilish life. They come and go. They self mutate changing appearance under a microscope. They alter their behavior. Such things are not from God. They
      come from the dark side. Jesus said “The thief cometh not, but to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” (John 10:10)

      Jesus said “pestilences” would come at the end of this age. They would be a sign of His return. (Matthew 24:7) Read all of Matthew 24 to learn the context.

      This is not the only explanation for the zika virus. But it beats the monkey theory.

      Sincerely, Rev. Donald Hill. Evangelist.

      • reverend plz....
        September 10, 2016

        are you illusioned or are you just plain ignorant??? do some research “Reverend”. then again you well know the truth. You continue to perpetuate the ….religion of christianity, controlling the masses with blind faith. so i expect this from you. try to fool the people. the world is lighting up. your secrets will soon be known to all. You and your fake white Jesus.

      • Petrie Disi
        September 10, 2016

        Stop giving us your empty guesses and look at the facts presented by John Quentin-Smith.

        Can you dispute them? No, you can’t, then give us a break from your empty bleatings.

    • Joyce Malady
      September 11, 2016

      Thank you John. Thank you so much for telling us as it is and risking a lot in doing so. May I say to you though. Don’t bother with your sacrifice. Dominicans are not worth it. They are the descendants of slaves and are used to taking everything from their masters including the good, the bad and the downright ugly!

  9. kaykaytheboss
    September 7, 2016

    oh no i feel so sad for this parents

  10. Hmmmmmm
    September 7, 2016

    Just for clarification. If seven PREGNANT women have the virus and one delivered not to long ao doesn’t that mean there are six pregnant women? Or the one that delivered not one of the seven.

    • Seven - 1 is Six
      September 21, 2016

      7-1 is six. Go the top of the class now please!

  11. Me
    September 7, 2016

    In this case I believe it is a woman’s right to terminate her pregnancy if she so wishes.

    • September 8, 2016

      Paraphrased:

      You believe it is a woman’s right to murder her unborn baby if she so wishes.

      Why not wait until the baby is born? Then if it is not normal kill it. This way the child would at least have half a chance.

      No! No! No! I believe the Bible. I believe my church has it right.

      Sincerely, Rev. Donald Hill. Evangelist.

      • Me
        September 9, 2016

        Rev. I beg to differ and do not call this murder but sensible. Let’s just agree to disagree.

  12. Tell the Facts
    September 7, 2016

    This Zika virus is practically worldwide. How did it get to Dominica? It could be another scourge.
    Zika is dangerous for especially pregnant women. We know the babies could be born with some abnormality.
    An advice, take some Vitamin E. It could help build the immune system. It is also stated, Vitamin E could delay the aging process. Most times, I take one Vitamin E a day. It is also strengthening. I make a joke about it, “Thanks to my Vitamin E for strength.” :lol:
    Some years ago I read an article on Vitamin E in The Toronto Star newspaper. I clipped it out, a trait of mine when I read interesting articles. I decreased the size and have given copies to many of my relatives/friends.
    It is also stated that Vitamin E could /prevent/delay Alzheimer’s.
    Vitamin E and milk go together. Never overdo taking/drinking and eating anything. As with everything else, always in moderation.
    As I always state, Google the health benefits of Vitamin E.

    • Facts, are you not tired of trying to be so deceptive!

      They have long identify the areas affected by this mosquito virus, and certainly it is not; and I reiterate, it is not world-wide, nor even close to world wide!

      And if you wish to contradict me, please do so by submitting a lists of all the nations world wide where you found this virus! What does vitamin E, have to do with Zika, and Alzheimer’s, how did you manage to relate Alzheimer’s to Zika, and vitamin E?

      Are you not tired of making a fool out of yourself, and embarrassing yourself?

      • Tell the Facts
        September 7, 2016

        I decided to respond but against my will with my God-given precious allotted time. It may be for a good reason.
        You think you are mr. smarty two shoes. Cease contradicting people when they comment. You are a man who is beyond learning. Your problem is you are filled with pride, false pride. Pride comes before the fall. This is what occurred to Satan. He has forfeited Heaven forever. Now he is using you to antagonize people on DNO.
        I do not care two hoots about your comments. They do not benefit me one bit. I bet, no one else. Who can learn anything from you? You try to demean others but you are the laughing-stock. Write something which will please others, the fair and just. :twisted: :mrgreen: :twisted: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :twisted: :mrgreen:

      • Tom
        September 8, 2016

        Well said Francisco

        This person appears to suffer from recurring verbal diarrhoea.

        The continuous spouting of rubbish is starting to cause me mental anguish.

      • Yea, right!

        Anything you say you are correct, but you see all those little devil head you have on they thing, wishing they will eat my head, be careful they do not turn on you and bite you eh!

        Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhaha!

        Seriously Facts, where do you get your information from? If it is from the Internet Facts, such foolishness will confuse you, perhaps when you wish to know about something scientific you should go into a public library, or a good book store and find a book on the subject which will educate you better.

        I suggest a college book store, maybe they will sell you the books even if you are not registered in a class, over here unless you are registered in a class they will not sell you the books; there is a way interested people overcome that here, at the beginning of the semester there are always students selling their old test book from the last semester buy the ones you are interested in that might help you!

    • Tell the Facts
      September 8, 2016

      You guys, Telemaque and Tom are getting good health information and you do not appreciate it. Too bad for you. I never have anything bad to say, if I can help it. Always positive; never negative and providing good advice. It is a built-in trait, of godliness and hereditary, from my parents.
      I know Vitamin E builds up the immune system. It could ward off most viruses, i.e., if they are not an epidemic. I said to Google it!
      Why is it some people contract a virus and others do not?
      I know what I stated is correct.
      You guys,Telemaque.and Tom are not nice people. It may be you have a medical problem and are on medication. Why else would you oppose what I stated?
      So far, so good I do not have a medical condition. I do not take medication. This is why I speak about Vitamins. It is also hereditary, from my parents. We learn from our parents, good or bad, health-wise or not.
      Learn to be polite; do not insult people and cease addressing. Leave them alone.

      • Lady Facts, Alzheimer and Dementia, has nothing to do with the Immune system they are not an immune system diseases!

        Again I will say to you every bit of information you read that I wrote on the subject, regarding Alzheimer, and Dementia, are not made up nor can be found on the Internet, there are times when you may find bits and pieces, but they are not detailed as thought in a medical school, or anywhere in a Health Science class.

        Trust me there are many doctors, and medical professionals reading my submissions on DNO, and if I was simply pulling garbage out of thing air to impress people, or lying to impress people, somebody would have already exposed me. The fact is no medical doctor, or anybody trained in health science, and took the classes that I took would even jokingly try to refute the medical, and scientific information I disseminated.

        If anything they can only repute my comments!

  13. Well, how can this be when a few short weeks ago you people came on this same DNO, and proclaimed that some health organization awarded Dominica some sort of award for the way you all dealt with Zika in Dominica, and the island was free of the problem; you had it under control!

    If there are seven confirm cases, that is seven too many, because there might be much more than seven unidentified. We will only know them after the birth of some when we see the deformity of their heads. I don’t know how governments of the more developed world are advising their people not to travel to Dominica, because of the issue of Zika, yet you all are boosting about some never received award from some invisible institution.

    To comment that there are no death caused by the virus, goes to show how little we know about the diseases, though it may have the potential to kill, the focus is on the deformity it causes!

    • A
      September 7, 2016

      Mr. Telemaque, no one ever said that Dominica was free of the zika problem. The zika virus is present in most all Caribbean countries. It may surprise you to know that zika is also in the USA, Canada, France and many of the more developed countries. These countries with all their wealth and resources cannot solve the zika problem, the president of the US is calling for increase funding to fight the zika outbreak taking place in the US. Dominica had nothing to do with the creation of this virus, we are just victims.

      • ” It may surprise you to know that zika is also in the USA, Canada, France and many of the more developed countries.”

        How can I be surprised when I know the there is a place in Florida, it is believed the mosquitoes live and breed year round?

        We know it originates in Brazil, and since Brazil is one of the most popular tourist destination in the world, it is expected that visitors to that South American country are likely by chance to get bitten, and take the virus back with them to their country, but this is not justification to suggest that Zika is international as madam Facts claimed.

        In regards to Dominica, we always exaggerate everything, when they claim WHOA gave them some award for been so effective in dealing with the mosquito, by simply fogging; is a lie!

      • Tell the Facts
        September 7, 2016

        That man is a pain in the . . . ; in the neck. He can never agree with anything which is stated. He always has to put up an opposition. He is a sad sack and not one whom anyone should discuss matters with. Let us feel sorry for him and his overall miserable attitude which is what he consistently projects.

      • John Quentin-Smith, PhD (historian)
        September 8, 2016

        Does ‘A’ stand for A***h*l*? Zika was manufactured by the US bank in 1947. It has nothing to do with mosquitoes. It is one of the many deceptions being inflicted upon us by those who choose to follow Satan.

        https://www.corbettreport.com/zika-fear-falters-as-false-flag-fraud-fizzles/
        http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2016/06/07/zika-virus-threat.aspx
        https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2016/01/29/zika-freakout-the-hoax-and-the-covert-op-continue/

        Read, be wise, spread the news and look after your friends and families. May God bless Dominica and protect it from the followers of Satan.

      • Dr. Kozan Garne, DSc (microbiology)
        September 18, 2016

        the same president that has confessed to arming ISIS and is now fighting them??

        Now back to Ziks, some questions to challenge your encephalitic brain:

        1) Why did the USA commission the Rockefeller Health Institute to engineer zika in 1947?
        Why did the RI patent the virus
        2) Why has the virus been on sale since 1968 – to anyone
        3) If zika can be passed on by mosquitoes, the why can’t the AIDS virus
        4) Why are there so many number 7’s in the CMO’s account of the progress of zika (7th of September ) 20 (16), 7 women pregant; 28 (4x 7) people have the ‘virus.

        Sure believe what you may, but even an idiot can figure that Dominicans are being treated like the monkeys they deserve to be treated like if they continue to swallow this continued attack on their stupidity by the proliferation of lies and lies and lies again by the powers that be.

    • Arte El Labore
      September 7, 2016

      Francisco, I will not be having a go at you time, this morning i saw on Cnn Zika is all the way in the far east could you confirm that please.

      • You asking me! What do I know; I doh know noffing eh

        Haahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!

        I will tell you who to ask, there is a lady name Facts Machine; Kid On Block, and all other, she knows more than I do, I suspect she will be happy to confirm, true or false!

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