Are sick pigs the source of the Zika Virus problem in Pernambuco, Brazil?

Prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in slaughtered pigs in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil.

 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22263703

 

 Number of pigs in Pernambuco Brazil as of 2007: 495957

Source:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pernambuco

 

Pernambuco, Brazil was the last place to have an African Swine Fever outbreak in 1981.

Did they really ever get rid of it?

 https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0ahUKEwjkla6CsNLKAhWBcz4KHSy0B0wQFgggMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciquest.org.nz%2Felibrary%2Fdownload%2F61326%2FImpact_of_African_swine_fever_in_Brazil_%253A_a_retros.pdf&usg=AFQjCNGvt-REsBSBt6s7fDF-2ChBnF0OOg&sig2=clZBX_A3XmVpA7bujxWv9g&bvm=bv.113034660,d.cWw&cad=rja

"Female mosquitoes — which are the only ones that bite, by the way — need to take a blood meal in order to reproduce. They can bite any vertebrate — birds, pigs, even reptiles, and, of course, humans. And since they are so mobile, they easily spread disease from one host to another. They act as syringes for transmitting viruses. What is happening now with the Zika virus, is what is happening among many other arboviruses, like dengue, West Nile and chikungunya: They all seem to be spreading westwards. And we’re undergoing a pandemic."

 http://newsblog.drexel.edu/2016/01/22/qa-is-zika-virus-a-threat-to-the-united-states/

 

 

 

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