The adverse birth defect aspect of Zika infection is not as prevalent as initial reports imply.
For example a pregnant woman who gets Zika during pregnancy is not destined to have a baby with micro encephalitis. It is more likely than not she will have a normal child. Many different syndromes are seen as a cause for small heads. While this virus is one of those possible causes of small heads, even so one in ten of these affected children will have perfectly normal cognition.

As for Zika being a STD it is one of many diseases that mosquitos spread that also have STD susceptibility.

While new information can change the outlook for Zika infections the current status of its effect should not freak out the world. I do not share this unbiased information to protect the summer Olympics any other conspiracy theory or any other knee jerk response to the news.

Guillam Barre' syndrome is so rare as a possibility from Zika as to be irrelevant. It is true this mass bloom of Zika world wide is alarming it is not anywhere near as dangerous as the flu.