Overturning Zika: The Pandemic That Never Was

Overturning Zika is an exposé of the Zika-microcephaly phenomenon.
Zika rose abruptly from conjecture to panic. After enduring briefly as a
worldwide pandemic, Zika mysteriously disappeared -- with only silence
from health officials and experts.
Billions whipsawed by the recent Covid-19 threat have the inadvertent
background necessary to delve into Zika’s own wild story. Overturning
Zika represents a “Get Out of Jail Free” card for 100-million pregnant
women in the tropics, many still self-sequestering in a misapplied fear of
any single given mosquito bite.
Overturning Zika intertwines personal stories of intrepid, mission-driven
physicians and researchers, with clarifying thumbnails of background
science. The Zika story has the excitement of the 1990s movie Twister:
Brazil’s captivating rogue physicians on a quest to find new mysterious
illnesses -- but with a Tower of Babel result: an insufficiently-proven
pandemic’s misuse and misdirection for personal and political ends.
Brazil’s adventurers will ultimately have harmed more than helped:
creating a ‘tornado’ whose damage through misinformation will exceed
that from a mosquito’s infection.