Anti-Zika pesticides found to cause neurological damage

‘While we’ve all been distracted by other issues, the mass Zika hysteria of last summer has quietly been replaced by deafening silence. For months, the mainstream media inundated the American public with terror-inducing articles about how Zika was going to give their unborn children microcephaly, a condition in which the brain does not develop properly, resulting in an unusually small head, poor motor function, severe brain damage, seizures and other horrific conditions. Many pregnant mothers lived in fear, while others decided to delay falling pregnant or even chose to have abortions. The whole world was on high alert, convinced that in 2015, Zika had caused over 2,000 babies to be born with microcephaly in Brazil. Even Congress got on board, allocating $1.1 billion in taxpayer dollars to programs aimed at controlling this “terrible” virus.
One of these programs involved the aerial spraying of the pesticide naled over large parts of Miami-Dade County and other parts of Florida. Even before the Zika “outbreak” the state had been spraying naled routinely for years to control mosquitoes. This, despite the fact that naled is officially banned in Europe, and several other countries, including Puerto Rico, refused to use it in the fight against Zika. Hundreds of residents protested against the spraying, but to no avail.’
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