2015 - 2016 Zika Epidemic

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Art Interpretation July

"It's been with us for a long time, probably for at least 5,000 years when we started keeping water next to our homes  and it's adapted to people, It loves us. It loves our cities. It loves our blood. It functions very well with us," says Marten Edwards, an entomologist at Muhlenberg."

The first artwork seemly depicts a teenager walking through an impoverished neighborhood infested with inimical mosquitos , littered with garbage, detrituses and wastes,. Amidst in such danger, the teenager is oblivious and continues his journey onward disregarding the imperilments. 

The artist deliberately selected the red pigment on the mosquitoes to signify tha hazard a mere bug poses. Speaking of the mosquitoes, the character positioning also intigues me, the artist created this artwork from a downward postion looking up, being behind the mosquitoes, the artist coherently disposed all the characters in a single framed painting (graphics painting). The reletive size of the mosquitoes seen from what is given in the painting is significantly oversized, giving them a sense of power, despite their, comparably miniscule size, it outlines a bugs capacity to inflict harm.

The second artwork is rather bland, that classic old good vs evil confrontation you see in movie posters. In short, this artwork exemplified and embellished researchers effort in tackinling Zika. 

Artist: Matthew Twombly

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Where’s the chill

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Love in the Time of Zika 

As the pestilent Zika virus proceeds to propagate throughout and beyond the South American borders, this poignant Brazilian documentary tells the heart felting stories of three mothers accommodating and caring for their babies with microcephely; a condition inherited from an incect bite under demanding environments and circumstances,

“When you have a baby you hope that the baby is normal,” paediatric neurologist Dr Vanessa van der Linden tells me. “We idealize the ‘perfect baby’ and it’s difficult when you see that it’s not this.”

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No vaccine exists to prevent Zika virus disease. Zika virus is mostly spread through the bite of an infected mosquito.  These are the suggested prevention method issued by PAHO & WHO.

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The heart of the Zika outbreak

The heart of the Zika outbreak

Ahead of the Rio Olympics, see how Recife, Brazil’s hardest-hit city, is coping with the Zika virus. Click here to read more.

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The Zika Epidemic

If you had not followed my blog for the sole reason of my weird/crazy username, then you are down for business. Zika virus disease is a highly contagious, mosquito-borne illness that is particularly prevalent in South America. Once entered our biological system, early symptoms may induce fever, crimson colored rash and bloody eyes. Doesn’t sound as deleterious as you’d expected? Well, then you are wrong, plot twist:

Incorrigible birth defects such as Microcephaly for newborn babies of mothers contracted with the Zika virus prior or during pregnancy. Abortion rate in affected countries skyrocketed, thousands of mothers that does not wish burden their children with permanent impairments in life chooses the path of taking their child’s life, seems like perfect sense to me, but here’s the conundrum... Some couldn’t (read more) .

With the upcoming 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, it has come to the worlds concern whether it would promote the spread of the virus in an unprecedented rate, the issue is not going to resolve itself, and we need all the help we can get. 

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Abortions are illegal in El Salvador, and birth control is hard to come by. The irony, which seems lost on El Salvador, is that the same government that denies women control over their reproductive health is now asking those same women to control their reproductive health until 2018.

— From When A Country Without Abortion Tells Women To Not Get Pregnant, a piece responding to the Zika virus in Latin America and the Caribbean. 

(via genhealth)

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