While US is battling with the incredible rates on diseases like obesity and cancer, Zika virus tends to overtake and become the greatest terror of all, devastating around forty states now including Washington DC. The funding is not yet approved and hopelessly not coming in this season of mosquitoes, as reported by US Today.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention records 1,133 cases of Zika infection in the US and all of these came from travelers who went to the Zika-affected areas before entering the US. As per today, there are 320 pregnancies affected by Zika and another 279 in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Zika virus is feared to continuously spread throughout the forty affected states and even to the rest of the states. Some American citizens do not have access to healthcare and the failure to get the right help from the government will add up to the decreased rate on the regulation of the virus.
Things are going out of hand while the Federal Health expresses dismay towards the slow approval of the congress for Zika funds. There are around 4.6 million people to protect, there is not enough health care in Texas, the transmission of the Zika virus has started in the Gulf coast, and so on and forth. The problems are everywhere.
Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the school of tropical medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, says that "In the absence of federal funds, it all falls on state and county authorities," Dr. Ann Barnes, chief medical officer for Legacy Community health, agrees by saying that some people who got bitten will not notice that they are already carrying the Zika virus. This is mostly possible in areas like South Texas, where 16.8 percent of the population do not have access to health care.
The congress desires the Zika problem to be solved as soon as possible. However, some say that it is not right to "rob Peter for Paul...". Many Americans die of diabetes, Tuberculosis, and other diseases everyday and they cannot pull off the funds from these to solve Zika. Now the question of who gets what is still hanging in the middle of the tension. Will they allow the doomsday mosquitoes to finally conquer soon? Hopefully not.
