according to slate
Zika is spreading in Florida, but we know how to stop it.
Zika is spreading in Florida, but we know how to stop it.
csfotoimages/ThinkstockThe news about Zika seems particularly bad as of late.An infant born in Texas died last week due to complications from microcephaly, the first death in Texas to have resulted from Zika.Local transmission continues in Florida: The state will offer free testing to pregnant women, a critically important step, but federal funding is still missing.
let alone denverpost
Congress must stop playing politics with Zika funding
Congress must stop playing politics with Zika funding
When fighting disease becomes political, chaos is never far behind.For months now, public health experts and scientists have been sounding the alarm over the steady march of the Zika virus toward the U.S.They even predicted where it would make landfall — Florida, Texas, New York.
additionally usatoday
Texas researchers on front line of battle to stop Zika spread in USA
Texas researchers on front line of battle to stop Zika spread in USA
Researchers Trina Fenning, left, and Jessica Buitron study a mosquito trap for signs of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, the main carrier of the Zika virus.The San Antonio-based study is tracking the movement of the mosquito in neighborhoods.(Photo: Rick Jervis)SAN ANTONIO — A few days each week, students and volunteers from Texas A&M University-San Antonio stroll into the front yards of homes across this city, pull a black sticky trap from a bucket and carefully peer at the mosquitoes glued there.
No comments:
Post a Comment