By Associated Press
As many as 50 pregnant women a day are becoming infected with Zika
in Puerto Rico. The best defense is aerial spraying, said Dr. Tom
Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, (CDC) to The Associated Press.
Zika is a virus spread by mosquitos that can
cause microcephaly, which results in babies being born with brain damage
and abnormally small heads.
Frieden said Puerto Rico, which is a U.S. territory, lacks an integrated mosquito control program.
"If any part of the continental U.S. had the
kind of spread of Zika that Puerto Rico has now, they would have sprayed
months ago," said Frieden. "This is more a question of neglect than
anything else. ... If we wait until children with microcephaly are born,
it will be too late. That's the problem."
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Source: NBC News
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