The pictures are heartbreaking: Millions of honeybees lie dead after being sprayed with an insecticide targeting the feared Zika-carrying mosquitoes. Dorchester County engaged in aerial spraying of an insecticide called naled, an insecticide that is banned in numerous countries, but legal for use in the U.S. since 1959. We've known Naled kills bees for more than 23 years. It is still recommended by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention "for control of adult Aedes aegypti, the mosquito that transmits Zika."
"On Saturday, it was total energy, millions of bees foraging, pollinating, making honey for winter," beekeeper Juanita Stanley said. "Today, it stinks of death. Maggots and other insects are feeding on the honey and the baby bees who are still in the hives. It's heartbreaking."Stanley, co-owner of Flowertown Bee Farm and Supplies, in Summerville, South Carolina, said she lost 46 beehives -- more than 3 million bees -- in mere minutes after the spraying began Sunday morning. The near hysteria regarding the Zika virus, as there are several dozen cases of travel-related Zika in South Carolina, prompted Dorchester officials to make an ill-advised move to begin aerial spraying – even though the state health department reports no one has yet acquired the disease from a local mosquito bite. The effects from the aerial spraying were disastrous. 2.5 million bees died in a single morning thanks to aerial spraying of the pesticide Naled in Dorchester County, SC.
Bees are a critical part of our food chain and they're already dying at an alarming rate; without bees, we have no food. We demand an immediate halt to this reckless and unnecessary aerial spraying. BE HEARD - TELL THEM TO STOP THE SPRAY! Action group The Other 98% has launched a petition calling on cities to stop using bee-killing pesticides to fight Zika. Click here to sign the petition. South Carolina had a total of 43 confirmed Zika cases as of Aug. 26, none of which were contracted from local mosquito bites. The fact that such a highly toxic substance is being sprayed down upon people, animals and insects alike is shocking given the facts relating to Zika in South Carolina.
It seems clear that the problems inherent to NALED are potentially worse than Zika itself. Given the fact that so few people are infected with Zika – none by local mosquitos – in combination with the known devastating effects of NALED, it seems like the solution is a bigger danger than the initial problem. AERIAL TOXIN SPRAY CAN MORE DEVASTATING TO HUMANS
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http://anyflip.com/viry/svwi/
1. ZikaH Jamil - J Pak Med Assoc, 1989 - jpma.org.pk
2.Cornell pmep.cce.cornell.edu/profiles/extoxnet/carbaryl-dicrotophos/dichlorvos-ext.html#12
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ZIKA FACTS and FICTION
The New England Complex Systems Institute has shed new light on the situation and opened the possibility that the declared Zika link may be premature. The study is expansive and so credible that the New England Journal of Medicine published the preliminary results in spite of already concluding Zika was the problem.
The study looked at nearly 12,000 pregnant Colombian women infected with Zika.
None of them had a baby with microcephaly.
Four cases of microcephaly were reported with women who didn’t have Zika symptoms and were not part of the study, which is consistent with the normal expected number of cases.
Others have peer reviewed paper reflecting the increase in microcephaly cases and other nenonatal malformations have only been reported in Brazil and French Polynesia. A number of concurrent events have occurred in Brazil, each of which provides an alternative hypothesis for microcephaly worth consideration. (read more...)
Important Update September 2016: Brazil reveals that the Zika virus is not causing microcephaly in infants.
Here's the doctor's report from Brazil with scientific references
http://www.reduas.com.ar/…/…/Informe-Zika-de-Reduas_TRAD.pdfIt's actually the pesticide itself! Low vitamin A levels in the body, caused by the pesticide, tainted water, and poor nutrition are causing microcephaly.
Our medical and health authorities need to admit when a mistake has been made, and repair it! More spraying and vaccines are only going to make this situation more acute.