Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I want to speak about health care, and it is a health care crisis that is upon us right now. It is the Zika crisis. Happily, if my voice will hold out, I am here to share with the Senate that I think we have finally found a path forward to fund the fight against Zika. The specifics are still being worked out, but it seems that there will be a deal, and we will soon be able to move forward on doing what we tried to do last summer, which is to fund the crisis that we know as the Zika crisis. Let me just briefly describe it. Populations outside of the continental United States, such as Brazil, are highly infected populations because of the presence of this type of mosquito, the Aedes aegypti mosquito. It is not like a normal mosquito. Normal mosquitoes come out at night. They fly all around in the countryside. When this Florida boy grew up, I was bitten by so many mosquitoes I was almost immune. But this aegypti mosquito lurks in the dark corners of your house. She lays her eggs, her larva, in stagnant water--but not a pool, not a pond like normal mosquitoes; they can lay their larva in a still surface of water as small as a bottle cap that has caught water. As a result, this mosquito transmitting the virus feeds not on one person at a feeding but four people. Thus, an infected mosquito has now transmitted the virus to four people who, in turn, can now transmit it to others by sexual contact or another uninfected mosquito bites the infected person.…”