While this virus was first discovered in 1947, it was only the cause of small and sporadic outbreaks in Africa and southeast Asia prior to 2007. Since 2007, the virus has slowly marched across the South Pacific Islands, and it reached South America in 2013 or 2014.

Self-blame is one of the most toxic forms of emotional abuse. Psychologists say it exaggerates our perceived inadequacies, whether real or imagined, and creates an illusory ideal that we simply cannot meet. In fact, in the Book of James, we are reminded, we all stumble in many ways” and from the Book of Ecclesiastes, we know “there is not a righteous man on earth who continually does good and who never sins.”