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Cigar
08-10-2016, 10:59 AM
He cut their budget and shut down two mosquito control research facilities and
now wants the Feds to bail him out.

A small contingency fund was available if needed but it was used for purposes
other than mosquito control ... "And indeed, year after year, Scott and the
Republican-controlled Legislature have raided the trust fund to plug other
holes in the budget at the same time they’ve cut taxes and fees for other
programs and special interests."

http://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2016/08/scott-boasts-about-states-zika-fight-but-slashed-mosquito-control-funding-to-save-money-104539


I would be nothing more than Poetic-Justice for Rick Scott to get Bit ...

http://www.cdc.gov/features/stopmosquitoes/stopmosquitoes_456px.jpg (http://www.cdc.gov/features/stopmosquitoes/)

Mac-7
08-10-2016, 11:02 AM
Zike is carried by foreigners who bring it to America.

I wonder how many of the known cases are illegal aliens who should not be here anyway?

Cigar
08-10-2016, 11:06 AM
Zike is carried by foreigners who bring it to America.

I wonder how many of the known cases are illegal aliens who should not be here anyway?

Thanks for proving beyond a shadow of a doubt, your personal ignorance on the subject ... please continue

Mac-7
08-10-2016, 11:09 AM
Thanks for proving beyond a shadow of a doubt, your personal ignorance on the subject ... please continue

Do you think the infected mosquitos flew here all by themselves?

FindersKeepers
08-10-2016, 11:15 AM
He cut their budget and shut down two mosquito control research facilities and
now wants the Feds to bail him out.



Wasserman is a tall tale teller, indeed.

http://politifact.com/florida/statements/2016/aug/09/debbie-wasserman-schultz/debbie-wasserman-schultz-misleads-attack-rick-scot/


When Wasserman Schultz spoke, there had been a total of 422 Zika cases in South Florida, the majority acquired while traveling and 16 locally acquired.
Wasserman Schultz told reporters that she was referring to Scott’s budget decisions in 2011. Her spokesman pointed to an article in Politico (http://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2016/08/scott-boasts-about-states-zika-fight-but-slashed-mosquito-control-funding-to-save-money-104539#ixzz4GTupUPme)that explained cuts to state aid to local mosquito control programs. That was Scott’s first budget year after he ran on a platform to slash spending amid the recession.
State budget records show that while Florida under Scott cut money to mosquito control his first two years, the state later raised it substantially:
2010-11: (http://floridafiscalportal.state.fl.us/Document.aspx?ID=2928&DocType=PDF)$2.2 million (Gov. Charlie Crist's last budget)
2011-12: (http://floridafiscalportal.state.fl.us/Document.aspx?ID=14436&DocType=PDF) $1.3 million (Scott’s first budget)
2012-13: (http://floridafiscalportal.state.fl.us/Document.aspx?ID=6236&DocType=PDF) $1 million
2013-14: (http://floridafiscalportal.state.fl.us/Document.aspx?ID=8401&DocType=PDF) $2.7 million
2014-15: (http://floridafiscalportal.state.fl.us/Document.aspx?ID=11929&DocType=PDF) $2.8 million
2015-16: (http://floridafiscalportal.state.fl.us/Document.aspx?ID=11931&DocType=PDF) $2.7 million
2016-17: (http://floridafiscalportal.state.fl.us/Document.aspx?ID=14435&DocType=PDF) $2.8 million
Jackie Schutz, a spokeswoman for Scott, said that he has invested more than $13.2 million in funding for mosquito prevention and control.
Separately, "Gov. Scott has allocated more than $26 million to combat Zika and will continue to allocate more if necessary," she said.




However, Tabachnick who remains a professor at UF, told PolitiFact Florida that the decision to close the lab wasn’t by Scott.
"The decision to close PHEREC, to withdraw all funding, was made by Florida A&M, not the governor," he said.

MisterVeritis
08-10-2016, 02:49 PM
Thanks for proving beyond a shadow of a doubt, your personal ignorance on the subject ... please continue
Obama's illegal alien children's army came from zika-rich countries. Find and deport his illegal alien children's army and much of zika goes with them.

birddog
08-10-2016, 03:47 PM
Do you think the infected mosquitos flew here all by themselves?

Poor Cigar, not a student of entomology and common sense, that's for sure! :grin:

Mac-7
08-10-2016, 06:16 PM
Poor Cigar, not a student of entomology and common sense, that's for sure! :grin:

Thanks to FindersKeepers we know that the headline is a lie.

the only question is whether Cigar was lying to us or is merely a dupe of the liberals who gave him the story.

hanger4
08-10-2016, 07:18 PM
Thanks to FindersKeepers we know that the headline is a lie.

the only question is whether Cigar was lying to us or is merely a dupe of the liberals who gave him the story.

Dupe

hanger4
08-10-2016, 07:23 PM
Wasserman is a tall tale teller, indeed.

http://politifact.com/florida/statements/2016/aug/09/debbie-wasserman-schultz/debbie-wasserman-schultz-misleads-attack-rick-scot/

Dang girl dat's a gonna leave big ol mark.

Mac-7
08-10-2016, 08:37 PM
Dupe

Probably

Common
08-10-2016, 09:00 PM
First of all each county budgets and has their own mosquito control, state govt does not run mosquito control for the entire state, counties each do their own. The state has a budget from my understanding thats used for state land and parks etc. This is a special situation with zika. I cant stress enough there is not and never has been for the entire 12 yrs ive lived in fla been a mosquito problem where I live

Btw this isnt to protect rick scott, I cant stand him and cant wait till hes gone

Mac-7
08-10-2016, 09:15 PM
First of all each county budgets and has their own mosquito control, state govt does not run mosquito control for the entire state, counties each do their own. The state has a budget from my understanding thats used for state land and parks etc. This is a special situation with zika. I cant stress enough there is not and never has been for the entire 12 yrs ive lived in fla been a mosquito problem where I live

Btw this isnt to protect rick scott, I cant stand him and cant wait till hes gone

If Cigar ever wonders why he has a lower approval rating than isis telling (or retelling) damn lies a good reason.

waltky
02-18-2017, 08:36 PM
Smart mosquito trap...
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New mosquito trap smart enough to keep just the bad bugs
Feb 16, 2017 | WASHINGTON — A smart trap for mosquitoes? A new high-tech version is promising to catch the bloodsuckers while letting friendlier insects escape — and even record the exact weather conditions when different species emerge to bite.


Whether it really could improve public health is still to be determined. But when the robotic traps were pilot-tested around Houston last summer, they accurately captured particular mosquito species — those capable of spreading the Zika virus and certain other diseases — that health officials wanted to track, researchers reported Thursday. The traps act like "a field biologist in real time that's making choices about the insects it wants to capture," said Microsoft lead researcher Ethan Jackson, who displayed a prototype trap at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston. The traps are part of Microsoft's broader Project Premonition, aimed at learning how to spot early signs of outbreaks. "It catches people's imagination," said University of Florida medical entomology professor Jonathan Day, who isn't involved with the project. "But whether it is actually a trap that will functionally improve surveillance, I think that remains to be seen."

Trapping is a key part of mosquito surveillance and control, important so health officials know where to spray or take other measures to fight mosquito-borne diseases. Trapping hasn't changed much in decades: Typically net traps are outfitted with mosquito-attracting bait and a fan, and suck in whatever insect gets close enough. Entomologists later sort the bugs for the ones they want. Jackson's trap consists of 64 "smart cells," compartments outfitted with an infrared light beam. When an insect crosses the beam, its shadow changes the light intensity in a way that forms almost a fingerprint for that species, Jackson said. Program the trap for the desired species — such as the Aedes aegypti mosquito that is the main Zika threat — and when one flies into a cell, its door snaps closed.

In pilot testing in Harris County, Texas, last July and August, the trap was more than 90 percent accurate in identifying the insect buzzing through the door, Jackson said. Harris County already is well known in public health for strong mosquito surveillance, and had been keeping a sharp eye out for Zika — fortunately finding none. But mosquito control director Mustapha Debboun called the high-tech trap promising, and is looking forward to larger scale testing this summer. "If we are trying to collect the Zika virus mosquito, you can teach this trap to collect just that mosquito," he said. When each mosquito is captured, sensors record the time, temperature, humidity and other factors, to show what environmental conditions have different species buzzing. That's information officials might use to schedule pesticide spraying.

MORE (http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/mosquito-trap-smart-bad-bugs-45546171?yptr=yahoo)

donttread
02-19-2017, 08:28 AM
He cut their budget and shut down two mosquito control research facilities and
now wants the Feds to bail him out.

A small contingency fund was available if needed but it was used for purposes
other than mosquito control ... "And indeed, year after year, Scott and the
Republican-controlled Legislature have raided the trust fund to plug other
holes in the budget at the same time they’ve cut taxes and fees for other
programs and special interests."

http://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2016/08/scott-boasts-about-states-zika-fight-but-slashed-mosquito-control-funding-to-save-money-104539


I would be nothing more than Poetic-Justice for Rick Scott to get Bit ...

http://www.cdc.gov/features/stopmosquitoes/stopmosquitoes_456px.jpg (http://www.cdc.gov/features/stopmosquitoes/)


Aren't you iltra libs supposed to be pro-envirnoment? Anyway here's a tip. Don't build in or near a big ass swamp.

waltky
03-10-2017, 05:21 PM
Zika Virus Can Cause Heart Problems in Some Adults...
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Doctors Tie Zika Virus to Heart Problems in Some Adults
March 09, 2017 - For the first time, doctors have tied infection with the Zika virus to possible new heart problems in adults.


The evidence so far is only in eight people in Venezuela, and is not enough to prove a link. It's also too soon to know how often this might be happening. The biggest trouble the mosquito-borne virus has been causing is for pregnant women and their fetuses. "I think as awareness increases, the cases will start to show up more," said Dr. Karina Gonzalez Carta, a Mayo Clinic research fellow working in Venezuela who investigated the heart cases. She discussed them on an American College of Cardiology press call, ahead of a presentation Saturday at the group's meeting in Washington.

Many people infected with Zika will have no or only mild symptoms, such as fever, aches, an itchy rash or red eyes. But the virus has caused an epidemic of birth defects in the Caribbean and South America, notably babies with abnormally small heads and brains. A report last June in the International Journal of Cardiology describes heart problems that have been seen from other viruses spread by mosquitoes, such as West Nile and ones that cause yellow fever, dengue fever and chikungunya. Doctors have been watching for the same from Zika, and "we were surprised at the severity of the findings" in the Venezuela cases, Carta said.


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A Sucre municipality worker fumigates for Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that transmit the Zika virus in the Petare neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela

She studied nine patients, ages 30 to 64, treated at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Caracas who developed heart symptoms such as palpitations, shortness of breath and fatigue an average of 10 days after typical Zika symptoms began. Only one had any prior heart-related problem - high blood pressure that was under control with medications - and all had lab tests confirming Zika infection. They were given extensive heart tests and were studied for an average of six months, starting last July.

Eight of the nine developed a dangerous heart rhythm problem, and six of the nine developed heart failure, which occurs when a weakened heart can't pump enough blood. Doctors don't know if these problems will be permanent. So far, they haven't gone away although medicines have improved how patients feel. "This is the first time we've considered that cardiovascular disease may be associated with Zika," and people who travel to or live in places where Zika is spreading need to watch for possible symptoms, said Dr. Martha Gulati, cardiology chief at the University of Arizona-Phoenix who is familiar with the results.

Zika infections have been reported in more than 5,000 people in the United States, mostly travelers. After a big outbreak in Brazil in 2015, Zika spread throughout Latin America, the Caribbean and elsewhere. The virus also spread locally in parts of southern Florida and Texas last year. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has warned pregnant women to avoid travel to Zika zones and to use bug spray and other measures to prevent bites.

http://www.voanews.com/a/doctors-tie-zika-virus-to-heart-problems-in-some-adults/3757463.html

Tahuyaman
03-10-2017, 05:32 PM
Is everyone dead yet?

patrickt
03-10-2017, 08:23 PM
And, liberals have never figured out that correlation does not equal causation. We had a leftist president who hates and America and Zika infection went up. Coincidence?

And the Save the Mosquito people who got DDT banned by liberal fiat and caused an amazing resurgence of malaria don't care.

waltky
01-27-2018, 12:12 AM
More Birth Defects in US Areas With Zika...
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Health Officials: More Birth Defects in US Areas With Zika
January 26, 2018 — The mosquito-born Zika virus may be responsible for an increase in birth defects in U.S. states and territories even in women who had no lab evidence of Zika exposure during pregnancy, U.S. health officials said on Thursday.


Areas in which the mosquito-borne virus has been circulating, including Puerto Rico, southern Florida and part of south Texas, saw a 21 percent rise in birth defects strongly linked with Zika in the last half of 2016 compared with the first half of that year, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in its weekly report on death and disease. Researchers said it was not clear if the increase was due to local transmission of Zika alone or if there were other contributing factors. The Zika outbreak was first detected in Brazil in 2015 and spread through the Americas. It has been linked to thousands of suspected cases of microcephaly, a rare birth defect marked by unusually small head size, eye abnormalities and nerve damage resulting in joint problems and deafness.



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An Aedes aegypti mosquito known to carry the Zika virus, is photographed through a microscope at the Fiocruz institute in Recife, Brazil



For the report, the CDC examined existing birth defect reporting systems in 14 U.S. states and Puerto Rico to look for birth defects possibly associated with Zika. They divided these areas into three groups: places with local Zika transmission, places with higher levels of travel-associated Zika, and places with lower rates of travel-related Zika. Overall, they found three cases of birth defects potentially related to Zika per 1,000 live births out of 1 million births in 2016, about the same as the prior reporting period in 2013-2014.


When they looked specifically in areas with local Zika transmission and looked only at birth defects most strongly linked with Zika, they saw an increase. "We saw this significant 21 percent increase in the birth defects most strongly linked to Zika in parts of the U.S. that had local transmission of Zika," Peggy Honein, an epidemiologist and chief of the CDC's Birth Defects Branch, said in a telephone interview. "The only area where we saw this increase was in the jurisdictions that had local transmission." CDC researchers anticipate another increase in possible Zika-related birth defects when 2017 data are analyzed because many pregnant women exposed to Zika in late 2016 gave birth in 2017.


https://www.voanews.com/a/health-officials-more-birth-defects-us-areas-zika/4226559.html