HOUSTON — Congress starts its final week of the summer Monday with no Zika legislation in sight.
Six months of battling has ended with little
agreement on how to prepare the country for a virus that causes horrific
birth defects — and that doctors, public health experts and scientists
universally agree is certain to come to U.S. shores.
And in Houston, there's little hope that help is coming.
"I am concerned that the goose is cooked. This
funding is done. It's not coming to us," Dr. Umair Shah, executive
director of the Harris County public health and environmental services
department, told NBC News in an interview.
Mosquito season is now in full swing across the United States. The
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has registered 1,133 cases of
Zika infection — all brought by travelers from Zika-affected areas. The
CDC now counts 320 pregnancies affected by Zika in the states, and
another 279 in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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Source: NBC News
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