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June 29th, 2016 
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Susanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Media Spokesperson, HEALTH MAX Group
The Republican-controlled House proposed a Zika bill called a “disaster” by Senator Bill Nelson. He explained that the bill steals $500 million “in healthcare funding [from] Puerto Rico, [and] limited access to birth control services” that would prevent the spread of the virus.”
Democrats complained that the bill has provisions that negatively impact the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Medicare reimbursements to Planned Parenthood.
For Puerto Rico, family planning services is a viable way to combat the Zika virus; a plan desperately needed as the island is in danger of having a major outbreak.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said : “They restrict funding for birth control provided by Planned Parenthood. Can you believe that? And the Zika problem, who does it affect? Women and especially pregnant women.”
Republicans defended their EPA and Planned Parenthood riders as being necessary. The EPA restrictions would be “temporary and designed to make it easier to spray pesticides to kill mosquitoes” while the health services funding is to be redirected to “community health centers” and other religious-based organizations.
To make matters worse, Senator John Cornyn, a major player in the language of the Zika bill, said that the public can blame Democrats “when this virus hits our shore and women start having babies with terrible birth defects.”
Anne Schuchat, deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) chastised Congress for forgetting that “more than 500 pregnant women in the United States have contracted Zika… [and] we need the states to be able to detect, respond [to] and prevent infections.”
Schchat told the Senate: “We need to strengthen surveillance for the disease and for mosquitoes. We need to do everything we can to control the mosquitoes.”
Getting a hold on Zika is proving to be difficult, as a new set of studies have determined that the “virus seems so mild in some people [and] yet causes devastating birth defects.”
While testing monkeys, results have been less than cut-and-dry.
In one experiment, infected monkeys gave birth to uninfected babies, and in another test, the babies were infected. The researchers cannot figure out why Zika produces such inconsistent results.
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