Daily Mail: Scientists today warned the Zika virus has 'explosive pandemic potential'. The World Health Organisation said the mosquito-borne disease had gone from a mild threat to one of alarming proportions and admitted up to four million people could be infected. The agency will convene an emergency committee of disease experts on Monday. It comes after US experts claimed WHO was not taking a leadership role in the Zika pandemic. They said the organisation needed to learn lessons from its handling of the Ebola epidemic where the 'agency's failure to act decisively cost thousands of lives'. The WHO says it has set up measures to fight the spread including surveillance, laboratories for testing, clinical care and vector control - killing off the mosquitoes spreading the infection...read more>>>...
OPINION: Yawn! Heard this so many times before. PROBLEM-REACTION-SOLUTION. This is STAGE 1 ... creating a problem. Infect some mosquitoes with a laboratory created virus. Put them out into a controlled environment. Get a test area of the world infected. Then SCARE SCARE SCARE ... to get the reaction they want .... then they provide the SOLUTION which is where they want to go. Yawn!