Posted on 06/01/2016 12:39:29 PM PDT by Kaslin
Summer is here.
This means warmer, muggier months, especially in the Sunshine State. It means fun at the beach, swimming, grilling, and enjoying the outdoors. But it also means dealing with pesky mosquitos.
This year in particular, these annoying bugs are a major concern. This year, we are faced with the Zika virus.
Zika, in part, is still a mystery we’re gradually learning about. We’re gathering details about where this comes from, how it’s dangerous, and what we can do to prevent an outbreak.
My district in Florida has seen at least 4 confirmed cases in Hillsborough and Pinellas counties. The Florida Department of Health has confirmed cases involving residents from 14 different counties, and five cases involving pregnant women.
After meeting with Governor Scott and others in Florida’s congressional delegation this month, I am confident we will continue working together to proactively protect our communities. We know this virus has the potential to be a real public health threat, and we’re dedicated to staying ahead of an outbreak. Your safety is our top priority.
The President called on Congress to provide emergency funding to fight Zika. We responded with not only funding, but a responsible plan to designate these funds and use taxpayer dollars responsibly and effectively. We must ensure that funds are being used efficiently to keep individuals safe and to prevent the spread of Zika.
I’m working with my colleagues on the Energy and Commerce Committee and experts across the nation to determine ways to address this virus. With their input, we in Congress worked on important legislation.
I discussed the virus with witnesses from FDA, NIH, CDC, and HHS during a hearing this March and co-sponsored The Adding Zika Virus to the FDA Priority Review Voucher Program Act, which has since become law. This bill allows developers of a vaccine or treatment for a qualifying tropical disease to receive a voucher for FDA priority review for a second product, and will help incentivize vaccine development against Zika.
Last month, the House passed legislation to bring about more necessary reforms and delegate appropriate funding.
The Zika Response Appropriations Act and Zika Vector Control Act will help keep our nation safe by removing barriers to fighting the virus, and funding mosquito control and readiness in states with high mosquito populations.
With this legislation, we provided immediate funding of more than $622 million for HHS agencies, State Department, and USAID agencies to fight and prevent the spread of Zika. We required the agencies to submit spending plans and notify Congress before funds are obligated, holding agencies accountable for the spending of taxpayer dollars. We cut excessive time and money spent on pesticide permitting, to enable those resources to be spent on shrinking the mosquito population.
Through this legislation, Congress can help prevent a public health crisis rather than wait for a declared emergency. I will continue working to keep those seemingly pesky mosquitos from being much more than just a pest.
Is the sarcasm tag necessary?
DDT worked & most likely thousands have died since it was
outlawed. - OTOH, take ODORLESS GARLIC CAPSULES. I take it
& now don’t get mosquito bites; even the ticks don’t seize
on me any more. Evidently, even the odorless garlic capsules
aren’t odorless to them, nor tasteless. Knock on wood!
A whole lot of gobbled-gook but what was it he said? Vouchers?
For what? Not a single specific.
Vaccine research? Sprays? Oxitec’s modified mosquitoes?
more graft
Zika is an excuse to steal more money
If they really cared about stopping stopping malaria and zika they’d bring back DDT.
Check the July 2007 Nat’l Geographic, which belatedly admitted DDT is not the plague it was portrayed to be.
>http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0707/feature1/text3.html<
DDT was stopped when they discovered it was saving over 1 million 3rd world lives per year.
Then the POPULATION CONTROL crowd became alarmed at the impact that would have on those countries developing and demanding control of their own natural resources.
Make Mosquitoes FUN again
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Texsport-Bug-a-nator-II-Electronic-Insect-Zapper/14895558
(DDT will work MUCH better)
Apparently the modern way to kill mosquitoes is to throw fistfuls of money at them.
Are they lying about what is really spreading Zika? Is it really spreading as a sexual disease due to all the illegal aliens entering our country?
Also, is the mosquito story serving two purposes:
1) Cover-up the illegal alien disease problem.
2) Free more money for Obama’s friends.
They can’t cover up the illegal alien angle here in NJ; the virus has jumped a dozen states and is here now. Who knows how many people have been infected by the trafficked Honduran host already?
I personally don’t have a dog in the fight as I seem to be immune to bites of any kind. Bugs don’t bite me and dogs don’t bite me nor do snakes or even small children. I would, just for aesthetic reasons, like to commit genocide on mosquitoes. Oh, and gnats.
Mosquitoes love me, or hate me whichever way you want to look at it. DDT should have never been stopped. You can thank the lunatic left for it.
Southern cure for gnats around your eyes:
Cut a hole in the seat of your pants!
;^}
BTTT
Someone should build a small Drone(3-6’) with a trailing open net bag to scoop up mosquitos.
MO’s squitos, are they Muslim ?
The current mutation of mosquitoes is because of an altered (DNA done by science) mosquito type was introduced down at the epicenter to combat malaria....it’s not nice to fool mother nature. For every action there is an equal but opposite reaction....nature is what it is .....this “zika” will fade away after billions are grifted for useless crap to save us ....cyclical theft is all I see.
I just eat the garlic. My mouth needs a little excitement since I had to quit the tiny little peppers from Thailand that I used to eat in handfuls.
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