Zika--transmitting in the united states

romanigypsyeyes
Thu, 04 Aug 2016 00:08:15 +0000

@anomader hit the nail on the head. Unfortunately, Zika is going to hit hardest in areas where there are severe abortion restrictions. It is going to hit women and families who are low income the hardest. They have the least resources to protect themselves, restrictions to abortion, and the least resources to raise a child with severe physical and mental disabilities. And if they give the child up for adoption for whatever reason, children with disabilities are the hardest to adopt out.

The “good” news is that mosquitoes don’t venture very far during their lifetimes.
The bad news: people do.

If I was working in Florida’s public health system, I would be pushing to get treated mosquito nets out to every woman who is pregnant or trying to become pregnant (and to their partners if they don’t sleep in the same bed).

Zika itself is not especially hard to deal with. The vast majority of people who get sick are only sick for a few days and only 1 in 5 people affected show symptoms. The hard part is going to be the Zika babies. They will almost certainly rack up astronomically high medical and other bills (therapy, etc).