13 new Zika cases reported in Florida

[pErvinalia]

Is your hat a little loose lately..?

[laklak]

The Little Head isn't as big as it used to be....

[mistermack]

Is that mosquito living in Florida? If it is, there's no chance that Zika won't become endemic in the sunshine state.

Say goodbye to international tourism.
Sell all your shares in Disney.
Put your speed boat on the market.
It's all going tits-up.

[Scot Dutchy]

Great living in the tropics (well not all the time).

[pErvinalia]

Thankfully we don't have that mozzy here in Oz.

[Scot Dutchy]

You never know and never say never.

[pErvinalia]

Too much ocean separates us from tropical America. It's not here.

[Scot Dutchy]

Plenty of ships travelling.

[laklak]

Oh yeah, we got the little bastards here. Don't own any Disney stock, hate tourists, don't own a speedboat. Actually, if we went back to the pre-Disney Florida I grew up in I'd be happy as shit. Just let me sell this property first and then I'll make a few trips down to Brazil and bring back some infected blood suckers.

[Sean Hayden]

If Florida doesn't kill it, nothing can.

[Tyrannical]

Even more dangerous than Ebola??!

Possibly. Mostly non lethal which helps it spread, and pregnant women give birth to a vegetable which poor nations can't really afford to take care of.

[Brian Peacock]

TALLAHASSEE

[Brian Peacock]

TALLAHASSEE

[laklak]

...lassie with a really classy chassis

[JimC]

Saw a discussion on the news the other night, on the only decent news show we get, which is a local production where they'll do round table thingys. They had an infectious disease doctor and the mosquito control administrators for both Sarasota and Manatee counties on. The pros are concerned because we definitely have plenty of the proper kind of mosquito here, and once you get a large enough reservoir of travel related cases you will definitely get mosquito borne transmission. Nobody really knows what this shit will do in the long run. I live slathered in DEET. For all we know it's already there in the mozzie population, since apparently about 80% of cases are asymptomatic. I've probably already got it, knowing my luck.

Avoid getting pregnant, lak...