Are you afraid of Zika?

[Legion Troll]

Beg, borrow and steal: Zika preparation involves a bit of all three as federal, state and local health officials try to get a jump on the mosquito-borne virus while Congress haggles over how much money they really need.

With that financing in limbo, health officials are shifting resources and setting priorities — and not just in states where mosquitoes are starting to buzz. All but six states so far have seen travel-associated cases of Zika.

"Stealing money from myself" is how Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health describes raiding his agency's malaria, tuberculosis and influenza programs to fund a Zika vaccine.

He needs more cash by the end of June to keep the vaccine on schedule. And there's no guarantee those other critical diseases will recoup about $20 million.

"If we don't get something soon, then we're going to have a real problem," Fauci said.

Adding to the stress: What if another health emergency comes along at the same time?

"It's Zika now, but three months from now, who knows what it might be?" said Dr. Tim Jones, state epidemiologist in Tennessee, where few counties have mosquito eradication efforts.

Yet with funding pleas unanswered, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shifted $44 million to Zika from emergency preparedness grants that help state and local health departments with crises from flu outbreaks to hurricanes.

Three months ago, President Barack Obama requested $1.9 billion in emergency funding to fend off Zika. The House and Senate are arguing over how much to grant — and whether the money should come from cuts to other programs — with no final agreement in sight. House Republicans say the administration has padded its Zika request.

The Obama administration already shifted nearly $600 million from funds for Ebola flare-ups in West Africa and other accounts. On Friday, the president said lifetime care for a child born with Zika-caused brain damage may cost up to $10 million.

"Add that up. It doesn't take a lot of cases for you to get to $1.9 billion. Why wouldn't we want to make that investment now?" Obama said.


http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/jump-zika-preparations-money-limbo-39275025

 

[anatta]

Stealing money from myself" is how Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health describes raiding his agency's malaria, tuberculosis and influenza programs to fund a Zika vaccine

 

[Legion Troll]

You find that cringe-worthy?

 

[anatta]

You find that cringe-worthy?

don't you? "80% of the Zika infections show no symptoms" -and what are the risks if they do?

birth defects and possibly Guillain-Barré syndrome in adults, a condition in which the immune system attacks nerves following an infection, causing muscle weakness and paralysis
http://www.everydayhealth.com/news/10-essential-facts-about-zika-virus/

it's not benign for sure but compared to the others?

 

[Legion Troll]

don't you? "80% of the Zika infections show no symptoms" -and what are the risks if they do? birth defects and possibly Guillain-Barré syndrome in adults, a condition in which the immune system attacks nerves following an infection, causing muscle weakness and paralysis it's not benign for sure but compared to the others?

It's not a zero-sum game. Nobody wants to take all the funds previously allocated for other diseases and use it for Zika.

Re-purposing federal funding to another account temporarily when a new threat occurs that Congress can't/won't allocate money for is a common practice.

Since the GOP-dominated Congress refuses to act, why don't you face-palm them?

 

[anatta]

It's not a zero-sum game. Nobody wants to take all the funds previously allocated for other diseases and use it for Zika.

Re-purposing federal funding to another account temporarily when a new threat occurs that Congress can't/won't allocate money for is a common practice.

Since the GOP-dominated Congress refuses to act, why don't you face-palm them?

how many billions of dollars do you want to spend on a low-priority infection?
agreed it's not a zero sum game, but the fed'l budget isn't like an expanding balloon with no consequences either.
When do we say no more? But if you want to talk about waste/duplication out of control regulating -
then I'm all in.

 

[Leonthecat]

BilO was micro-cephalic before being micro-cephalic was cool.

 

[Legion Troll]

how many billions of dollars do you want to spend on a low-priority infection? agreed it's not a zero sum game, but the fed'l budget isn't like an expanding balloon with no consequences either. When do we say no more? But if you want to talk about waste/duplication out of control regulating - then I'm all in.

Your ignorance is astounding.



As research unfolds, we learn more and more about the damaging effects that the Zika virus has on the developing brain, and the danger it poses to couples trying to conceive. We also know that it has been linked to another paralyzing disease in adults called Guillain-Barre, and that there is currently no vaccine or cure for Zika.

In addition to the 4,759 Zika-linked microcephaly cases in Brazil, the Zika virus has raised hell in areas of the Caribbean and Latin America, where active outbreaks have been reported in 45 countries and territories. While the virus is typically spread through the bite of an infected female mosquito, we now have confirmed cases of transmission through sexual contact.

Simply put, this virus cannot be overlooked.

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2016/05/21/zika-virus-safety-ahead-profits.html

 

[anatta]

Your ignorance is astounding.



As research unfolds, we learn more and more about the damaging effects that the Zika virus has on the developing brain, and the danger it poses to couples trying to conceive. We also know that it has been linked to another paralyzing disease in adults called Guillain-Barre, and that there is currently no vaccine or cure for Zika.

In addition to the 4,759 Zika-linked microcephaly cases in Brazil, the Zika virus has raised hell in areas of the Caribbean and Latin America, where active outbreaks have been reported in 45 countries and territories. While the virus is typically spread through the bite of an infected female mosquito, we now have confirmed cases of transmission through sexual contact.

Simply put, this virus cannot be overlooked.

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2016/05/21/zika-virus-safety-ahead-profits.html

rthere is always something..the thing is the environment for mosquito breeding is probly the biggest factor, standing pools of water etc.

Brazil has been on a massive eradication campaign -but it's dangerous to the environment to spray pesticides all over too.

vaccines are expensive to develop, and limited to any one disease.

You can't cure everything,you can't treat everything all at one time - so you use resource allocation-
and that means not everything gets all the desired measures at all the time

 

[Legion Troll]

rthere is always something..the thing is the environment for mosquito breeding is probly the biggest factor, standing pools of water etc. Brazil has been on a massive eradication campaign -but it's dangerous to the environment to spray pesticides all over too.
vaccines are expensive to develop, and limited to any one disease. You can't cure everything,you can't treat everything all at one time - so you use resource allocation- and that means not everything gets all the desired measures at all the time

Perhaps you should volunteer to suck up all the standing water in your penis-shaped state and alleviate the problem at no cost to the taxpayer.

 

[anatta]

Perhaps you should volunteer to suck up all the standing water in your penis-shaped state and alleviate the problem at no cost to the taxpayer.

meh..you are exceptionally trollish today..is that a good or a bad thing?

 

[Legion Troll]

meh..you are exceptionally trollish today..is that a good or a bad thing?

Meh, you're exceeding ignorant most days. That's a bad thing.