Fresh out of the Ebola Panic, I wondered what evidence there actually was linking this virus which I'd never heard of with microcephaly(which I have heard of), particularly when I had heard that, while Zika has appeared in other places, the increase in incidence of microcephaly has not.

I found that there wasn't a lot of evidence out there--I did find this, though:

Doctors groups deny microcephaly zika connection, blame pesticide

"In a recent report by the Physicians in the Crop-Sprayed Towns (PCST), the group revealed that the area in which most of the afflicted persons live had been sprayed with a larvicide known to cause birth defects.

The chemical, pyriproxyfen, was added to the state of Pernambuco's drinking-water reservoirs in 2014, by the Brazilian Ministry of Health, in an effort to stop the proliferation of the Zika-carrying Aedes aegypti mosquito.

The report by PCST revealed that the pesticide, sold under the commercial name SumiLarv, is manufactured by Sumitomo Chemical, a Japanese subsidiary of Monsanto."



Our President (Mr. Obama) has asked Congress for $1.8 Billion to respond to this recent
possible crisis, and given that the immediate response, even in places that don't have the problem, seems to be to spray for mosquitos, I have a sinking feeling...