Zika
virus: Conspiracy theories about GMO mosquitoes and intentional infection
spread as disease fears grow 
The
Zika virus is currently being treated as an international emergency,
and is spreading explosively across the world. But as with all major,
terrifying events, misinformation and conspiracies is being spread quickly too. Many of the biggest conspiracy
theories are familiar: a shadowy network is spreading the virus, or people are
being intentionally left to die.But they can also have terrible effects. Many of the stories being spread demonise genuine efforts to get work done, and so could lead directly to people dying or the virus spreading further.
Zika was not spread as a population control mechanism
The idea that Zika is being used to keep the number of people down slots neatly into a range of popular conspiracy theories. But it doesn’t really make sense, even by its own logic.The Zika virus would be an incredibly inefficient way of wiping out populations, if that was the New World Order’s aim.
About 80 per cent of the people who catch the virus never experience any of its symptoms. If they do, then they’ll almost certainly feel like they have a bad flu: a fever, headaches, and so on.
The main reason to worry at the moment is the apparent effect that the Zika virus has on pregnant women. Their babies appear to be being born with an increased incidence of microcephaly, or abnormally small heads, which can lead to major problems later in life.
But even then, the Zika virus does not kill the children or their parents, or lower the fertility rate in any direct way. It is likely that people in affected countries will have fewer children while the disease is raging, as a way of looking to stave off its effects on their babies. But that would be an incredibly inefficient way of keeping the population down.
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