Zika: A Year in Review

by Ann Tomoko Rosen

A Critical Thinker’s Guide to Zika

Zika will most certainly be remembered as the pandemic of 2016, but like many pandemics of recent memory (think Swine Flu, Avian Flu, Ebola), it failed to live up to the inflated numbers and devastating statistics that the CDC ceaselessly projected through mainstream and social media. As a narrative, the Zika Crisis of 2016 rivaled Hollywood blockbusters with its global threats and dramatic turns, but as our villain, the Zika threat remained elusive. As the year came to a close it seemed that perhaps a better detective and less of a S.W.A.T. team might help us navigate the medical mysteries that plague us in the 21st Century.

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Moving Out Of The House That Fear Built: Zika

by Ann Tomoko Rosen

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

On a recent trip to Costa Rica I discovered that fear has found its way to my “happy place” – or rather it infected it with Zika virus hysteria. This had been coming, I suppose – with the influx of ex-pats come modern conveniences and the comforts of home and I have felt the world creeping in little by little. Alas, the discomforts of home have also arrived… in the form of pandemic fears.
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Why I’m No Fitbit Fan | The Healthy Home Economist

Back in 2008 I began noticing alarming pulse qualities on young individuals. Qualities that were typically found in patients post-radiation treatments for cancer therapies. Over time, Dr. Leon Hammer and I determined this trend was revealing the effects of radiation (EMFs) on our physiologies. We published a paper on this topic in 2009 which can be found here:
http://www.acupunctureandherbalmedicine.com/document/The%20Pulse,%20Leather,%20Electronic%20Age%20and%20Radiation.pdf

The article below similarly suggests our conclusions.

Why I’m No Fitbit Fan | The Healthy Home Economist.