Unfortunately, one word of the year candidate for 2016 is Zika, the name of the mosquito-borne virus linked to devastating birth defects. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Zika”
Another word of the year candidate is Zika.
We have to throw that one in there.
Z-I-K-A, standing for the Zika virus, which is transmitted by mosquitoes and causes birth defects.
And it is slowly creeping into the United States, and the mosquitoes that carry it are found throughout the warmer parts of the country.
Alerts are being sent out by the Centers for Disease Control.
It’s showing up in newspaper articles.
There’s a lot of people freaking out.
And, of course, obviously all the advice that usually applies to how to keep mosquitoes out of your environment is being spread even more because this looks like it’s even worse than the other things that are spread by mosquitoes.
Indeed.
The Zika virus.
Good candidate for word of the year.
