Here Are the 5 Craziest Zika Virus Conspiracy Theories [View all]

[HuckleB]

https://www.inverse.com/article/11547-here-are-the-5-craziest-zika-virus-conspiracy-theories

"The Zika virus is 2016’s first real epidemic, as it has potentially devastating effects on babies exposed to the virus in utero.

Unfortunately, the confusion about Zika’s link with microcephaly — which causes babies to be born with dangerously small heads — has spawned a number of conspiracy theories as to how the virus arose and other potential causes of microcephaly. Here are five of the most prominent.

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2. The CDC is the medical CIA, and the entire virus is a scam.

This one is taking a twofer of giant leaps, establishing a CDC connection with the CIA and simultaneously stating that the whole virus is a hoax. The theorists claim that there are only six confirmed cases of Zika linked to microcephaly, and therefore the whole virus is an overblown hoax. In reality, there are 41 cases of microcephaly linked to Zika, with over 4,000 cases that still need to be investigated. We’ll file this one under “woah there, let’s let the scientists do their jobs first.”

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Somehow, this piece missed the "vaccines did it" conspiracy.
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2016/02/11/zika-virus-and-microcephaly-antivaccine-warriors-say-its-vaccines-that-did-it/



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I guess we're stuck with various media outlets promoting this kind of stuff every time there is a health matter in the news.

Ugh.