Dr. Randy Bock

Dr. Bach, welcome to the program. Here we are. Uh-oh.

Dr. Bach, welcome to the program. Here we are. Uh-oh.

Wow. No national laws, but at least some local areas do. Yeah. Exactly.

Wow. No national laws, but at least some local areas do. Yeah. Exactly.

Thank you so much, Dr. Drew. It's an honor to be here. Drew's fine.

Thank you so much, Dr. Drew. It's an honor to be here. Drew's fine.

Well, it's a funny thing. It's funny you say jaundice because it's a flava virus, and flava means yellow, and it's named for yellow fever, actually, which produces a little bit of jaundice. So it's kind of an interesting irony right there. Speaking of yellow, if yellow starts showing up outside your door, I think you should pay attention and so forth.

Well, it's a funny thing. It's funny you say jaundice because it's a flava virus, and flava means yellow, and it's named for yellow fever, actually, which produces a little bit of jaundice. So it's kind of an interesting irony right there. Speaking of yellow, if yellow starts showing up outside your door, I think you should pay attention and so forth.

Go ahead. What you're seeing out there is a far more real phenomenon than what transpired with Zika. Let me just preface. Dengue, I've never personally seen a case of this. Dengue is a virus, and it's probably migrated from Africa, maybe with the slave trade, maybe thereafter. And the carriers, the Aedes aegypti, which is also an African word, Egypt,

Go ahead. What you're seeing out there is a far more real phenomenon than what transpired with Zika. Let me just preface. Dengue, I've never personally seen a case of this. Dengue is a virus, and it's probably migrated from Africa, maybe with the slave trade, maybe thereafter. And the carriers, the Aedes aegypti, which is also an African word, Egypt,

and maybe together or separately, I don't know, but both of them are in South America and causing dengue for decades, as far as we know, since the invention of figuring out which virus is which. And so over the last three or four decades, they've seen probably around a million cases of dengue every year. And there are a few fatalities.

and maybe together or separately, I don't know, but both of them are in South America and causing dengue for decades, as far as we know, since the invention of figuring out which virus is which. And so over the last three or four decades, they've seen probably around a million cases of dengue every year. And there are a few fatalities.

Yeah, it's a funny thing. So I don't know how much to make of that. You know, I think the flu is probably going to be more prevalent overall. But I think the flu is just a flu, you know, putting avian or whatever. I think they try to sell these things a little bit much. And that's part of the problem that happened with Zika. And I'll get to that for a reason. But you asked me what...

Yeah, it's a funny thing. So I don't know how much to make of that. You know, I think the flu is probably going to be more prevalent overall. But I think the flu is just a flu, you know, putting avian or whatever. I think they try to sell these things a little bit much. And that's part of the problem that happened with Zika. And I'll get to that for a reason. But you asked me what...

brought it up. So I bring up dengue because Zika is a dengue virus. There's four dengue and they're named prosaically one, two, three, and four. And Dr. Steven Harrison at BU, a microbiologist, believes that Zika really should be dengue five. So one, two, three, four, five, and I give him thumbs up for that.

brought it up. So I bring up dengue because Zika is a dengue virus. There's four dengue and they're named prosaically one, two, three, and four. And Dr. Steven Harrison at BU, a microbiologist, believes that Zika really should be dengue five. So one, two, three, four, five, and I give him thumbs up for that.

So Zika basically is indistinguishable from dengue and really it should be called dengue five. Dengue, with its million cases per year and all these different numbers, has never caused any increase in actual microcephaly numbers in Brazil. There's no dengue microcephaly. We've heard of Zika microcephaly, but it's a little bit of a mirage.

So Zika basically is indistinguishable from dengue and really it should be called dengue five. Dengue, with its million cases per year and all these different numbers, has never caused any increase in actual microcephaly numbers in Brazil. There's no dengue microcephaly. We've heard of Zika microcephaly, but it's a little bit of a mirage.

a phantom and so forth because probably um zika insofar it ever existed in the americas exists as coexisting with uh the other dengue it's other dengue brothers sisters cousins whatever you want to call it carried by the same mosquito the aegis egypti and there's a whole kind of dengue belt that's well known and documented oh there we go did randy freeze on us is that there you are you froze for a second go ahead again the dengue belt

a phantom and so forth because probably um zika insofar it ever existed in the americas exists as coexisting with uh the other dengue it's other dengue brothers sisters cousins whatever you want to call it carried by the same mosquito the aegis egypti and there's a whole kind of dengue belt that's well known and documented oh there we go did randy freeze on us is that there you are you froze for a second go ahead again the dengue belt