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Students Conquering Zika Emergency with Phenomenal Repellent
Zika virus, deaths and related birth defects threatening South American and the globe prompted university students in Oaxaca to develop a Zika virus-carrying mosquito repellent using simple natural elements as key ingredients. The repellent is an ecologically friendly, effective way to combat against not only mosquitoes carrying Zika virus, but also chikungunya and dengue.
“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” Benjamin Franklin said. The Mexican researchers apparently agree.
Their Zika repellent announcement comes as drug companies scramble to produce a profitable but possibly toxic vaccine. It also comes with the UN urging birth control measures because of a link to birth defects of unborn babies exposed to the Zika virus.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights says laws and policies restricting access to birth control services must be repealed amid the “explosive outbreak of Zika virus in the Americas, linked to an increase in the number of babies born with abnormally small heads.” A sudden, sharp increase in babies with “no foreheads and very strange heads” baffling doctors in Brazil in 2015 began a search for answers, leading to the then little-known pathogen, Zika virus. The disease, commonly called Zika fever, is now predicted to spread over Central and South America.
Pregant women are the target group for much of the public health, Central and South America travel advisories. The United States Center for Disease Control says, “Microcephaly is a birth defect where a baby’s head is smaller than expected when compared to babies of the same sex and age. Babies with microcephaly often have smaller brains that might not have developed properly.”
European Center for Disease Control reported the Zika Alert as follows:
On 1 December 2015, the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization issued an epidemiological alert entitled ‘Neurological syndrome, congenital malformations and Zika virus (ZIKV) infection. Implications for public health in the Americas’. The alert states: ‘Given the increase of congenital anomalies, Guillain-Barré syndrome, and other neurological and autoimmune syndromes in areas where Zika virus is circulating and their possible relation to the virus, the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) recommends its Member States to establish and maintain the capacity to detect and confirm Zika virus cases, prepare healthcare facilities for the possible increase in demand at all healthcare levels and specialized care for neurological syndromes, and to strengthen antenatal care. In addition, Member States should continue efforts to reduce the presence of mosquito vectors through an effective vector control strategy and public communication’. The alert also states: ‘According to the preliminary analysis of the investigation conducted by the Brazilian health authorities, the greatest risk of microcephaly or congenital anomalies in new-borns is associated with Zika virus infection in the first trimester of pregnancy’.
The Mexican students’ breakthrough is hailed as a totally natural potentially life-saving and economical product. When available on the market, the repellent will be 60% less expensive than traditional repellents, according to information published by Mexico’s National Science and Technology Council, Conacyt.
Miguel Alejandro Orduña Márquez of the University of Papaloapan said CitroRepel was developed in response to needs of citizens in Oaxaca, where high temperatures and humidity contribute to a proliferation of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, that transmits Zika, chikungunya and dengue. Márquez’s team of students of biotechnology and chemical engineering say their product uses no toxic chemicals and works three to six hours.
The repellent consists of essential oils, alcohol, distilled water and glycerine. It causes no allergic reactions of the skin because it employs all-natural products. Key ingredients include orange peel, lavender flowers and lemon grass that create three essential oils: citronella, limonene and linalool. These oils are strong-smelling and are extracted using hydrodistillation, according to the researchers.
The Mexican students call their creation CitroRepel. They plan to form a business to market their product.
Vector born diseases such as deadly dengue fever are usually associated with the hot humid tropics. Mosquito Foro Ambiental website reported today, however, that the Aedes aegypti mosquito has already adapted to higher altitudes and lower temperatures. It reported cases of dengue among hundreds of people in high, mountainous regions of Nepal.
“The implication for Mexico is that the mosquito could survive and breed in Mexico City,” The Mexican Daily Reported Saturday.
Thirty-seven cases of Zika have been identified in Mexico. The World Health Organization has warned of its potentially “explosive” growth in Latin America.
Symptoms of Zika are mild fever and skin rash along with conjunctivitis an eye inflammation, and muscle or joint pain. They are felt two to five days after an infected mosquito bites.
These researchers are brave. Remember what happened to scientists exposing truth and solutions that would have helped the citizens most impacted by BP oil spill?
FUNNY How Rockerfeller JUST HAPPENED to have patient this virus back in 1947! That link sends you right to the drug companys patient! Just like ebola last year, they are trying to make $ from an illness they had a patient on for almost 70 years!!!!
See how much of a scam your media and the Gov is trying to push out?
Very scary how predictable genocide can be.
ZIKA did not cause microencephaly. The poor babies brains were affected by a VACCINE their mothers got during pregnancy namely the tetanus diphtheria and pertussis vaccine (TDP).
Don’t get me wrong here. I’m very familiar with vaccine fraud. If the extraordinary number of babies with the same birth defect was linked to vaccine only, why so many cases — and dramatic surge — only in Brazil – where the Zika mosquito carrier was already more prolific?