Chitchat Who do you believe: Sinkie expert or WHO expert? Give reasons for your choice

[dr.wailing]

Do you believe Professor Leo Yee Sin, one of the highest paid experts in Asia, when she says that an infection with Zika confers lifetime immunity or Dr Heymann, a modestly paid WHO expert on the same disease?

What are the reasons for your choice?

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Q Does getting infected once confer immunity?

A One infection should confer lifetime immunity against the disease, said Professor Leo Yee Sin, a senior infectious diseases consultant at the Communicable Disease Centre.

Sources: "Zika outbreak: Lifetime immunity after infection", The Straits Times, September 1, 2016

http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/does-getting-zika-infection-once-confer-immunity
http://health.asiaone.com/health/health-news/zika-outbreak-lifetime-immunity-after-infection

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Some experts believe that being infected with Zika once confers lifelong immunity, but that is only an assumption, says infectious diseases expert David Heymann.

Dr Heymann, who chairs the World Health Organisation's (WHO) Emergency Committe on Zika virus, said experts assume there will be protection "because that's the natural way the body responds".

"But we don't know," he told The Sunday Times, adding: "What you know (about Zika) is important, but what you don't know is even more important."

Another unknown is whether being infected with one Zika strain protects against other strains.

Source: "Protection key as much about virus is unknown", page A10, The Sunday Times, September 11, 2016

 

[frenchbriefs]

Zika is not chicken pox,is this guy nuts?its not just a matter of applying calamine lotion and waiting two weeks.nobody knows what are the long term consequences of having zika virus in ur bloodstream.besides this virus has been around for decades

 

[mojito]

Of course. More disease means more immunity. It is like you eat enough dirty food, you become immune to food poisoning.

 

[JohnTan]

Sinkies have shown extraordinary ability to turn a shitty third world fishing village into a metropolis within a single generation. Most AMDKs since the 1960s are more well-known for their failed leftist, socialist policies, smoking weed and partnering with radical islam to screw their own people.

I trust the sinkie's judgement.

 

[virus]

only gong Cheeebye will believe the b1tch. why dont she goto guccoland site with her whore familee and get stung every day and every hours to triple up the protection.

talk is cheap.

 

[Leongsam]

I agree with the sinkie expert. I also have to add that nobody should bother about Zika because for the vast majority it is a minor illness with no lasting consequences.