Zika Virus Countdown

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JUL 11 2016, 5:32 PM ET
Zika Virus Countdown: 'This Funding Is Done. It's Not Coming to Us'
by MAGGIE FOX

HOUSTON — Congress starts its final week of the summer Monday with no Zika legislation in sight.

Six months of battling has ended with little agreement on how to prepare the country for a virus that causes horrific birth defects — and that doctors, public health experts and scientists universally agree is certain to come to U.S. shores.

And in Houston, there's little hope that help is coming.

"I am concerned that the goose is cooked. This funding is done. It's not coming to us," Dr. Umair Shah, executive director of the Harris County public health and environmental services department, told NBC News in an interview.

Mosquito season is now in full swing across the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has registered 1,133 cases of Zika infection — all brought by travelers from Zika-affected areas. The CDC now counts 320 pregnancies affected by Zika in the states, and another 279 in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

And the first Zika patient has died in the continental U.S. — a patient reported on Friday by officials in Utah.

With so many cases being carried to the U.S., it's only a matter of time before there are local outbreaks, predicts Dr. Mustapha Debboun, the director of mosquito control for Harris County, Texas.

"It only takes one mosquito to take that blood meal and catch Zika from a person," Debboun told NBC.

A CDC map shows the Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes that can carry the Zika virus are found in 40 states and in Washington, D.C.

All it will take, Debboun said, is for someone actively infected with Zika to be bitten by one of these mosquitoes and for the insect to live long enough for the virus to build up in its salivary glands. Then, if it bites someone else, there's local spread of Zika.

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Drones and Nukes will keep 'Merica safe . Maybe if The President stood up and declared a War against insects that would get the job done. Until he does best Y'all buy bigger guns .
Personally I can't see how a few more brain dead children will actually make any significant difference to anything important...... The Republicans will probably benefit in the long run .

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First Republican zika president in 50 years time..

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How many times did they vote in a Bush

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It's heeeere. 4 cases of mosquito borne Zika in the Miami area. Couldn't happen to a nicer town. I told them they should stop letting in all that Central and South American boat trash, but did they listen? Nope, and now for their humanitarian trouble they get tiny-headed babies sucking down a billion bucks each in taxpayer money. And for what? They'll never amount to a hill of red beans and rice. Might as well use them as chum, to keep the hammerheads and tigers off South Beach. Just goes to show that no good deed goes unpunished, like I've always said.

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