Health officials have long warned that the Zika virus will soon start affecting births in the United States mainland. Now, tragically, it appears to have finally happened.
A New Jersey doctor says a baby just born to a mother with the Zika virus appears to be affected by the disease.
Officials at Hackensack University Medical Center say the 31-year-old woman from Honduras delivered the baby girl through a cesarean section Tuesday.
Dr. Abdulla Al-Khan, the hospital’s director of maternal-fetal medicine and surgery, says the mother came to the U.S. to seek treatment after Zika symptoms were discovered. He says the virus was later confirmed.
Al-Khan says an ultrasound last week revealed birth defects, including microcephaly, in which the baby’s head is smaller than expected because the brain hasn’t developed properly.
The doctor says the baby looks “completely Zika-affected,” but confirmation of the virus in the infant is pending testing.
A baby in Hawaii was born with microcephaly related to Zika earlier this year.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
Why was she allowed into this country.Another great expense to the American people for this illegal
She was allowed in to vote Democrat!
Another illegal come to the United State to have a kid
and a good welfare check. A DEMOCRAT FOR SURE.
MAY BE HILLARY GRANDSON..FULL OF VIRUS.
What a cruel thing to wish upon any child! You should be ashamed.
So she was from Honduras! Not all people coming in from Latin America are illegal immigrants. Maybe she was on a business trip. Maybe she was visiting family. Stop jumping to conclusions, already.
Regardless: The child is now a US citizen and will be cared for by the hard working American Taxpayer, which of course most Democrats are NOT!
Not necessarily. The parents are not US citizens, so the child is not a US citizen. Just being born here does not confer citizenship.
According to the article, she was brought here for treatment. Therefore, she was brought here legally. That does not mean that she will stay here. I know of a child who comes from Haiti to the US every two years for a medical check-up. She is the first child in Haiti to survive neonatal tetanus BECAUSE she was treated by an American doctor who was in Haiti on a medical mission. She comes. She receives a check-up and vaccinations–paid for by her christian sponsors–and she returns home.
With microencephaly, the infant may not survive long. If she does, she will never be able to care for herself. The virus is carried by mosquitoes. They do not respect territorial borders. We WILL see more of these babies, born of US citizens, as the carrier mosquitoes make their way north. The best way to combat the damage that results is to look for a vaccine or treatment to prevent damage to unborn children. This is why women of child-bearing age should be sure that they have been vaccinated against rubella (aka German measles). The birth defects caused by rubella are every bit as terrible as those caused by zika.
And, before you accuse me of being a “flaming liberal,” I will tell you that I am a conservative christian.
If we don’t use our heads come November and vote these liberals out of office this kind of shit will continue if not accelerate.
It’s not the liberals that are trying to outlaw abortions. You think ObamaCare’s bad now, wait’ll we have to pay for all the advanced care these birth defects are going to require. Every woman that insists on carrying these kids to term, every family that won’t pull the plug when a kid’s born with unsurvivable birth defects is another tax on everyone else in the nation, either in raising the Medicare tax or bumping the premiums for private insurance.
Illegals bringing disease and more taxpayer expenses … not to mention political fodder for BO to try for his exorbitant funding for a disease caused by chemical sprays used to kill mosquitos and produced by the usual big-chem donors of the left ( big “M”).
When will we drive these leftist destroyers out on a rail, people?
Use your head and the good sense that God gave you! The virus is spread by mosquitoes, NOT people! You do not know that the disease was “caused by chemical sprays.” Most viruses develop independently. They are, in fact, pieces of genetic material so the mutation could be natural as easily as man-made.
Interesting, 2 cases? Even before ‘Zika’ micro encephalitis occurred. Now the GOVERNMENT wants everyone to be concerned. Meanwhile also in Washington, they’re repackaging pesticide bills to allow the spraying of streams, water ways and other ‘affected’ areas. Mark my words, Zika will be another blip on the SCARY virus scene, meanwhile the wanton poisoning of America will continue.
I will indeed mark your words. Zika “another blip”? You mean like HIV, multi-drug-resistant TB, multi-drug-resistant gonnorhea, influenza that crosses species barriers, ebola? Viruses and bacteria have the capacity to mutate faster than humans can respond. One of the four horsemen mentioned in Revelation represents disease and famine. There will be more “blips” and they will be part of God’s judgment. Get ready!
You know we let anybody in regardless of the dangers to the American citizens because the Emperor Obummer and his followers say so, they don’t give a rats ass about this country and the people. He wants Crooked Hillary to be elected so he can be nominated and approved for the Supreme Court to continue his work in crushing the Americans and their Constitutional rights. VOTE RIGHT IN NOVEMBER GET RID OF THE OLD ESTABLISHMENT AND THE CRONIES THAT FOLLOW WE NEED PEOPLE WHO WILL WATCH THE AMERICANS BACK
Dorathy-
crushing the Americans and their Constitutional rights.
You meant to say “God-given and Constitutionally-secured rights,” correct?
Your rights are only as secure as the honor and integrity of those who swear on oath to “preserve, protect, and defend” them “against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” That, or our ability to COMPEL compliance via felony perjury arrests.
NO ONE has EVER had “Constitutional rights.” If you believe you only have rights because a piece of paper says so, you’re doomed.
How sad for both mother and child. Is any company working on a medicine to fight the virus?
WHOA Folks;
This person came to the USA for medical care, a function we claim to be good at. There is no indication in the article to claim she is anything but a medical tourist. It is probably little known to the citizens of this country, but many foreigners, even Canadians with their fully socialized medical system, come to the USA for medical treatment. If they pay, it is good for our balance of trade deficit.
Cheers! Stu.
PS: I have had medical and dental treatment in Costa Rica. Does this mean the native Costa Ricans should suspect me of being an illegal immigrant?
This should help fan the Zika paranoia. I’m sorry to hear of these babies being born with birth defects. The best thing people who want to have children can do is to avoid traveling to areas where Zika is prevalent. This may not set well with the travel industry, but there will be plenty of time to visit South and Central America once the pregnancy phase of life is over.
Sure. Another argument to lock women up and treat them as second-class citizens in the name of protecting the lives of children they may never have. Whatever gains women made in the latter 20th Century in terms of equality, they’re now expected to give up in the name of the next generation. We’re becoming slaves to our wombs!
Doctors and scientists in Central Americathe Ziki virus has been around a long time without encephalitis. It was not until all the spraying of enormous amounts of pesticides did encephalitis big in to occur.
They are now using the Ziki virus as a scapegoat to prevent lawsuits and rake in billions to coverup what they have done…
I agree with almost all of the above comments. We allow every and anyone into this country, bringing with them viruses and diseases of great magnitude. When.are we going to learn? What did the mother and the idiots playing God think they could do to prevent the microcephaly that the virus is known to cause? That’s right…nothing. She already had it. Just spending more of our hard earned money attempting to play God. Let their own countries deal with this. Now the kid is an American, the mother can stay and soon all the rest of her clan will join her at our expense. What’s wrong with the officials in this country? They’ve now exposed, probably many, to this deadly virus. Ain’t we lucky?
I wasn’t aware that the ZIKA virus was around when Obama was born, but there it is for all to see. Tiny head and big ears!!!!!!!
Good one!
We would all like to help others. With that being said, at this point it is very important that we protect all Americans and it is our responsibility
To keep our children safe. History shows that that failure to take all precautions to do everything possible to stop a virus is to contain it and not allow those with the virus to infect others. In this case our ignorant government continues to allow all of these illegals from all over the world be enter without any medical checks.
This virus can and will cause many children to be born with defects. It’s very important that the President and the Democrats have got to stop all illegals immediately or face the consequences. Also all illegals in the US need to be moved and quarantined immediately untill all have been cleared.
You ever stop to think she came to the country BECAUSE she had the virus? That she was coming, not just to “America,” but an American HOSPITAL? This thing called “medical tourism”?
There should be a island where people can go to of their own free will for help of this magnitude. And what ever country they are from pay the cost if they can’t. After all they had to have money and/or influence to get to America.
And by the way I agree with most of the comments.
Interestingly, this baby is a citizen of the USA (United States of America).
Jim
This is the curse of Obama.