Stephanie Nolan's piece is littered with factual errors. e.g. The co-factor theory posited by Halstead, Mackay et al. can easily be refuted.

It is a very poor piece of journalism dressed up as real "science" reporting. 

For the reader's information there are real experts out there who know more about the Zika+ virus than all of the "experts" mentioned in this article put together. To do a proper refutation of most of the points raised in this article would take longer than what is possible in the comments section here. (A one hour audio presentation would suffice.)

P.S. On Friday Oct. 30th 2015 I first warned publicly about the threat of the Braziian Zika+ virus outbreak to the rest of the world. ("Ahead of the Curve" you could say.) Since then I have more done more research on all aspects of the Zika+ virus than anyone else alive. (How a polymath works.)