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Ontario has 1st confirmed case of Zika virus, ministry says
Ontario's first case of the Zika virus has been confirmed by the province's Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. In a statement, the province's chief medical officer of health said Friday that Public Health Ontario received positive test results for the virus in an individual who had travelled to Colombia. The ministry did not confirm whether the person affected is a man or a woman, but did say that the patient is not pregnant.
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This is actually a good thing. Maybe now we will have vaccines and good treatments for zika, dengue, chikungunya, since they are no longer third-world diseases.
This is one of those “the glass is half empty” versus “the glass has already spread the contagion into the monied, elite, ruling classes’ very midst” kind things, isn’t it?
I'm curious to know what animal species are also being infected and being a petri dish for this.