Florida Department of Health gives no Zika kits Where are they?

[gotsnowgotslush]

Thanks, Republicans.

Another one of your grand schemes, has formed a dangerous situation.

Officials are in damage-control mode, with Gov. Rick Scott insisting, “We have a safe state!” during a tour of the Zika hot zone in Miami’s Wynwood district.

Tourism is Florida’s biggest industry. Visitors spent some $89 billion here last year. And Disney is America’s No. 1 tourist attraction.

Outside of a few business owners in the affected square-mile neighborhood, however, Zika appears to have done little damage to tourism so far.


http://m.staugustine.com/news/flori...ls-go-damage-control-mode-over-zika#gsc.tab=0


Florida has been the worst affected state in the United States with the mosquito-borne Zika. Although New York has seen the most infections, Florida is the only state where there is evidence of local transmissions rather than among people who traveled to affected areas, according to the CDC.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slat...ka_shouldn_t_be_allowed_to_have_abortion.html

Meanwhile, reports of Zika case are adding up.

August 5, 2016

http://www.nola.com/health/index.ssf/2016/08/4_new_zika_cases_reported_in_l.html PrO

http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/...er-id-law-food-trucks-and-ut-football/379352/

August 1, 2016

The CDC says it may alter the size of the travel warning area as further data becomes available. “We will continue to look at this data every single day, including with additional testing,” Frieden says.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-warns-pregnant-women-to-avoid-zika-area-in-florida/



August 5, 2015

Planned Parenthood hasn't received any Zika kits from the Florida Department of Health


Today's Women Medical Centers do not have CDC Zika prevention kits

A spokesperson for Today's Women Medical Centers, which offers family planning, prenatal, and abortion services, also said her clinic has not heard from Gov. Scott's office or the state Department of Health about what help to offer women facing Zika. They also do not have CDC Zika prevention kits.


Goodhue says Scott's efforts to curtail reproductive health clinics in Florida has damaged his efforts for Zika prevention. Most recently, Scott signed a bill that would block state funding for many reproductive health clinics, including Planned Parenthood and Today's Women Medical Centers. Planned Parenthood sued the state, and the law is not currently being enforced, but, Goodhue says, Scott "has placed barriers on affordable health care, birth control, and contraception."

So far, the Florida Department of Health has confirmed one case of microcephaly in an infant whose mother contracted Zika while in Haiti. There are no cases of currently pregnant women with microcephaly diagnoses. But if there were, her options would be limited: the state restricts public insurance coverage for abortion, and prevents health insurance providers on the Obamacare exchange from covering abortion, with no exception for fetal anomaly. There is also a ban on abortion after 24 weeks.


http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/florida-zika-abortion-women-pregnant-governor


Beach Peanuts of Florida, Martha Jackovics writes—Florida Republicans Took A Bite Out Of Mosquito Control And Enabled A Zika Outbreak:

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...osquito-control-DNC-failed-disabled-delegates

"The challengers — who dub themselves “The Mosquitoteers” — say they’ll lower taxes, make cuts in attorney and accounting services, share operating costs with other districts or the county and reduce costs."

http://m.staugustine.com/news/local-news/2012-10-27/mosquitoteers-add-partisan-twist-race#

A man will never be forced to give birth to a Zika baby.

Of a matter of course, the Republicans ruined a bipartisan effort to fund the fight against Zika. They took advantage and piled all the anti Democrat issues into the bill.
Because elections (and campaign donors)

They gave everyone the finger, and went on vacation.

Tell me, how much they cared, when they fucked with the budget ?

 

[Hard_Rom]

More travel advisories to the US! Going to be safer to vacation in Kabul way things are going.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Ahh government at it's finest LOL

 

[phrodeau]

Once the Disney empire gets impacted, see how fast the state government changes its tune.

 

[NeverEndingMe]

how much ass do you smoke in a day?

Thanks, Republicans.

Another one of your grand schemes, has formed a dangerous situation.

Officials are in damage-control mode, with Gov. Rick Scott insisting, “We have a safe state!” during a tour of the Zika hot zone in Miami’s Wynwood district.

Tourism is Florida’s biggest industry. Visitors spent some $89 billion here last year. And Disney is America’s No. 1 tourist attraction.

Outside of a few business owners in the affected square-mile neighborhood, however, Zika appears to have done little damage to tourism so far.


http://m.staugustine.com/news/flori...ls-go-damage-control-mode-over-zika#gsc.tab=0


Florida has been the worst affected state in the United States with the mosquito-borne Zika. Although New York has seen the most infections, Florida is the only state where there is evidence of local transmissions rather than among people who traveled to affected areas, according to the CDC.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slat...ka_shouldn_t_be_allowed_to_have_abortion.html

Meanwhile, reports of Zika case are adding up.

August 5, 2016

http://www.nola.com/health/index.ssf/2016/08/4_new_zika_cases_reported_in_l.html PrO

http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/...er-id-law-food-trucks-and-ut-football/379352/

August 1, 2016

The CDC says it may alter the size of the travel warning area as further data becomes available. “We will continue to look at this data every single day, including with additional testing,” Frieden says.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-warns-pregnant-women-to-avoid-zika-area-in-florida/



August 5, 2015

Planned Parenthood hasn't received any Zika kits from the Florida Department of Health


Today's Women Medical Centers do not have CDC Zika prevention kits

A spokesperson for Today's Women Medical Centers, which offers family planning, prenatal, and abortion services, also said her clinic has not heard from Gov. Scott's office or the state Department of Health about what help to offer women facing Zika. They also do not have CDC Zika prevention kits.


Goodhue says Scott's efforts to curtail reproductive health clinics in Florida has damaged his efforts for Zika prevention. Most recently, Scott signed a bill that would block state funding for many reproductive health clinics, including Planned Parenthood and Today's Women Medical Centers. Planned Parenthood sued the state, and the law is not currently being enforced, but, Goodhue says, Scott "has placed barriers on affordable health care, birth control, and contraception."

So far, the Florida Department of Health has confirmed one case of microcephaly in an infant whose mother contracted Zika while in Haiti. There are no cases of currently pregnant women with microcephaly diagnoses. But if there were, her options would be limited: the state restricts public insurance coverage for abortion, and prevents health insurance providers on the Obamacare exchange from covering abortion, with no exception for fetal anomaly. There is also a ban on abortion after 24 weeks.


http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/florida-zika-abortion-women-pregnant-governor


Beach Peanuts of Florida, Martha Jackovics writes—Florida Republicans Took A Bite Out Of Mosquito Control And Enabled A Zika Outbreak:

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...osquito-control-DNC-failed-disabled-delegates

"The challengers — who dub themselves “The Mosquitoteers” — say they’ll lower taxes, make cuts in attorney and accounting services, share operating costs with other districts or the county and reduce costs."

http://m.staugustine.com/news/local-news/2012-10-27/mosquitoteers-add-partisan-twist-race#

A man will never be forced to give birth to a Zika baby.

Of a matter of course, the Republicans ruined a bipartisan effort to fund the fight against Zika. They took advantage and piled all the anti Democrat issues into the bill.
Because elections (and campaign donors)

They gave everyone the finger, and went on vacation.

Tell me, how much they cared, when they fucked with the budget ?

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Texas reported its first Zika-related death Tuesday after a baby girl whose mother traveled to El Salvador while pregnant died shortly after birth in a suburban Houston hospital.


Infant's death is first Zika-related fatality in Texas
JUAN A. LOZANO, ASSOCIATED PRESS August 9, 201


http://www.houstonchronicle.com/new...is-first-Zika-related-fatality-in-9131530.php


Three other American lives have been claimed by Zika — an elderly man in Utah who caught the virus outside the county and two elderly men in Puerto Rico, which is ravaged by the illness. There are 8,776 cases of the Zika virus on the island , including more than 900 pregnant women.


http://www.miamiherald.com/news/health-care/article94547542.html



https://www.texastribune.org


Clinics in Texas’ Lower Rio Grande Valley, one of the poorest regions in the country, are ill-equipped to handle the health threat presented by the Zika virus, and they aren’t alone — Texas is short on doctors. According to one study, Texas needs 12,000 more physicians to meet our per-capita national average. And about half the state has no OB-GYNs.



Maybe you remember the Texas legislature's fight with Planned Parenthood. In 2011 they restricted funding from clinics associated with abortion providers and shrank the state's family planning budget by 2 thirds. A New England Journal of Medicine study claimed that cutback led to more babies. A lot of that money has been restored, but bringing the system back on board takes time.



Leave for just a second the issue of Planned Parenthood aside. There are fewer places where a woman can go to get birth control. When you go in and destroy capacity, it takes years to rebuild. We're still in a rebuilding mode that's showing up with preparedness on issues like Zika.


https://www.revealnews.org/episodes/from-a-to-zika/


The states most likely to see the spread of the Zika virus have some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country. If unchanged, these state laws will compel women to carry babies to term even if they know their child will have extreme brain abnormalities from the Zika virus.

As the first cases of the virus from local mosquitoes have broken out in Florida over the past several days and other Gulf coast states brace themselves for outbreaks, these birth scenarios could set up the most contentious abortion debate in recent memory.


The abnormalities caused by the virus, however, are most often detected in final trimester of pregnancy and all of the states near the Gulf Coast with many Zika-ready mosquitoes -- Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Texas -- prohibit abortion after 20 to 24 weeks except in rare circumstances, according to analysis from the Guttmacher Institute. If Zika spreads in the coming months, many pregnant women could be compelled to give birth to children with severe brain impairment unless they can afford to travel to a more permissive state.


https://news.vice.com/article/zika-...-the-most-restrictive-abortion-laws-in-the-us


Women are going to Mexico for inexpensive birth control in Mexico.
Birth control, is $150.00 in America, where a available.

The fight over fetus burial is still happening in Texas.


http://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/news/2016-08-05/fetal-burial-saga-continues/

 

[BotanyBoy]

Clearly we need more Zika as the place is still totally overcrowded.

 

[snugglestruggle]

When the governor proposed his 2016 budget, which btw included a reduction in funding of the mosquito control,none of the democrats in Tallahassee objected.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Gov. Rick Scott and a tea-party-dominated state government have been at the forefront of the revolt against the law—and virtually every other form of government spending.


Rick Scott's main credential was his vast wealth, much of which he accumulated running Hospital Corporation of America. During Scott's tenure, HCA was caught systematically defrauding federal health programs of millions of dollars through elaborate schemes to overbill the government for various services, including care it never provided. In 2000, the company pleaded guilty to 14 federal felony charges and paid $1.7 billion in fines in what was the largest government fraud settlement in history. A few months after the federal investigation was announced, Scott was forced to resign, but not before snagging a $310 million golden parachute.


http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/02/florida-tea-party-backlash-rick-scott


“I was the lone Republican in a room full of Democrats. It was fruitless,” he said. “So we (Mosquiteers) got together and clicked. We’re conservative people with business experience.”

Gary Howell retired after 26 years in the Florida National Guard and 32 years as a reserve sheriff’s deputy.

His platform now is: No tax hikes. He also opposes a takeover of AMCD by the county.

“(But) I am in favor of working with the county,” he said.

While he was AMCD chair in 2005, Howell had to prepare the district financially to support a massive effort against a health threat: West Nile Virus.

That required a short raise in taxes though that hike was lowered later.

He said he’d re-open the Ponte Vedra Beach station and wants to own Hastings property for an auxiliary station.

“We’re not on a witch hunt,” he said of the Mosquitoteers. “We just think things could be better.”

http://m.staugustine.com/news/local-news/2012-10-27/mosquitoteers-add-partisan-twist-race#

Most of Florida's mosquito abatement work is done at the local level, where independent taxing districts are responsible for the bulk of the eradication efforts. These districts have become targets of tea party wrath. Last year, a trio of conservative activists dubbing themselves the "Mosquitoteers" challenged several members on the Anastasia Mosquito Control Board in St. Augustine. They campaigned on a plan to cut mosquito control taxes and the district's budget and bought a billboard reading: "Smash mosquitoes and the friends of Obama." Never mind, notes board member Vivian Browning, that the seats are nonpartisan: "Mosquitoes, they don't care if you're Republican, Democrat, or independent. They can eat you, infect you, kill you, regardless of party." One of the Mosquitoteers, a reserve sheriff's deputy, defeated a University of Florida biology professor who is an expert in mosquito-borne diseases—a concern in a state that has regular outbreaks of West Nile virus and has seen an uptick in dengue fever.

The state Legislature has also done its part to liberate mosquitoes from the shackles of big government. In 2011, the Republican-dominated Legislature slashed the state's contribution to mosquito control by 40 percent. Florida A&M University closed one of two major mosquito research labs in the state after the Legislature axed $500,000 in research funds. Public health officials succeeded in restoring money to keep the lab open, only to see Scott kill it with a stroke of his veto pen. Along with other budget cuts, the closure halved the number of Florida scientists working on mosquito control.


http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/02/florida-tea-party-backlash-rick-scott

 

[BettyPoop]

And Governor Scott wants the Federal Gov't to

clean up the waterways clogged with choking algae, yet he gave the sugar industry the green light to dump as much nitrogen fertilizer into the water as they wanted.

Let FL address it the way they address everything else--pray.

 

[NeverEndingMe]

you fucking retarded cunt, is this just a Florida issue?

get your head out of your ass

Gov. Rick Scott and a tea-party-dominated state government have been at the forefront of the revolt against the law—and virtually every other form of government spending.


Rick Scott's main credential was his vast wealth, much of which he accumulated running Hospital Corporation of America. During Scott's tenure, HCA was caught systematically defrauding federal health programs of millions of dollars through elaborate schemes to overbill the government for various services, including care it never provided. In 2000, the company pleaded guilty to 14 federal felony charges and paid $1.7 billion in fines in what was the largest government fraud settlement in history. A few months after the federal investigation was announced, Scott was forced to resign, but not before snagging a $310 million golden parachute.


http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/02/florida-tea-party-backlash-rick-scott


“I was the lone Republican in a room full of Democrats. It was fruitless,” he said. “So we (Mosquiteers) got together and clicked. We’re conservative people with business experience.”

Gary Howell retired after 26 years in the Florida National Guard and 32 years as a reserve sheriff’s deputy.

His platform now is: No tax hikes. He also opposes a takeover of AMCD by the county.

“(But) I am in favor of working with the county,” he said.

While he was AMCD chair in 2005, Howell had to prepare the district financially to support a massive effort against a health threat: West Nile Virus.

That required a short raise in taxes though that hike was lowered later.

He said he’d re-open the Ponte Vedra Beach station and wants to own Hastings property for an auxiliary station.

“We’re not on a witch hunt,” he said of the Mosquitoteers. “We just think things could be better.”

http://m.staugustine.com/news/local-news/2012-10-27/mosquitoteers-add-partisan-twist-race#

Most of Florida's mosquito abatement work is done at the local level, where independent taxing districts are responsible for the bulk of the eradication efforts. These districts have become targets of tea party wrath. Last year, a trio of conservative activists dubbing themselves the "Mosquitoteers" challenged several members on the Anastasia Mosquito Control Board in St. Augustine. They campaigned on a plan to cut mosquito control taxes and the district's budget and bought a billboard reading: "Smash mosquitoes and the friends of Obama." Never mind, notes board member Vivian Browning, that the seats are nonpartisan: "Mosquitoes, they don't care if you're Republican, Democrat, or independent. They can eat you, infect you, kill you, regardless of party." One of the Mosquitoteers, a reserve sheriff's deputy, defeated a University of Florida biology professor who is an expert in mosquito-borne diseases—a concern in a state that has regular outbreaks of West Nile virus and has seen an uptick in dengue fever.

The state Legislature has also done its part to liberate mosquitoes from the shackles of big government. In 2011, the Republican-dominated Legislature slashed the state's contribution to mosquito control by 40 percent. Florida A&M University closed one of two major mosquito research labs in the state after the Legislature axed $500,000 in research funds. Public health officials succeeded in restoring money to keep the lab open, only to see Scott kill it with a stroke of his veto pen. Along with other budget cuts, the closure halved the number of Florida scientists working on mosquito control.


http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/02/florida-tea-party-backlash-rick-scott

 

[NeverEndingMe]

clean up the waterways clogged with choking algae, yet he gave the sugar industry the green light to dump as much nitrogen fertilizer into the water as they wanted.

Let FL address it the way they address everything else--pray.

another fucking liberal dumb ass cunt. this problem started way before the current regime.

what the fuck is wrong with you obama retards?

 

[Tigersman]

Knowing the way the previous Florida governor viewed the populous I would venture to say that the current governor has his head buried in the sand. If the people are lucky he will get bitten by a Zika carrying mosquito.

 

[just4friends]

another fucking liberal dumb ass cunt. this problem started way before the current regime.

what the fuck is wrong with you obama retards?

What's your answer?? Just wondering
Somethings we actually DO depend on the government at some level as... people who live together....... in a society.......... but some folks just call all of that "socialism" and government intrusion. Those folks should move off the grid to remote cabins someplace (not in a national park) Put up signs so we won't bother you!

 

[NeverEndingMe]

What's your answer?? Just wondering
Somethings we actually DO depend on the government at some level as... people who live together....... in a society.......... but some folks just call all of that "socialism" and government intrusion. Those folks should move off the grid to remote cabins someplace (not in a national park) Put up signs so we won't bother you!

what the fuck is wrong with you?

First, this only became a Florida issue with retards took flights into Florida. Yes this is a government issue, retardboy. Just saying that this is an American issue and not just a Florida issue.

 

[BettyPoop]

clean up the waterways clogged with choking algae, yet he gave the sugar industry the green light to dump as much nitrogen fertilizer into the water as they wanted.

Let FL address it the way they address everything else--pray.

Keep praying. Maybe sprinkle some of that holy water you got for your donation to the Church of PO Box... onto your floating slime. Rick Scott is too busy polishing his girly cowboy boots to deal with you. Seriously, Dolly Parton would say his boots are way too tacky.

 

[just4friends]

Ahhh... So all this bullshit from one side is exactly that?
Hey if some states want to vote against big government help...they pay
To vote against taxes then bitch? That's shitty, but we have a whole lot of Ca playing that game. Don't tax us, but give us money!!

Then again what about the voters in those states that didn't vote to cut their throats?

The founding fathers were right.. Voters are not always that smart

 

[just4friends]

Reposted

 

[BettyPoop]

Where is little Marco in all this?

Hanging out with his drug dealing brother in law?

 

[NeverEndingMe]

Ahhh... So all this bullshit from one side is exactly that?
Hey if some states want to vote against big government help...they pay
To vote against taxes then bitch? That's shitty, but we have a whole lot of Ca playing that game. Don't tax us, but give us money!!

Then again what about the voters in those states that didn't vote to cut their throats?

The founding fathers were right.. Voters are not always that smart

has your mom taken you in for testing, retard?

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Zika

August 12, 2016

In adults, serious symptoms are rare. And because infected people may not know they are, it's possible they may unknowingly transmit the virus to a pregnant woman.

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-08-12/zika-evidence-seen-in-semen-after-record-6-months

Christian leaders and their followers, lobbyists from international conglomerate corporations, and Wingnuts that rose to political power, do not care if an epidemic spreads throughout the United States.

Religion, government, and international conglomerate corporations are eternal.

Privatization is the aim, to insure that these arms of the unholy union remain in domination of everything.


There is profit to be made from an epidemic.

Collateral Damage takes place during a war.

The blood of those crushed under the wheels of domination, are unimportant.

There is sardonic laughter, behind the masks of a international conglomerate corporations.

They wear many masks, and one of them is of a small corporation, that feeds on government funds, at the expense of true,legitimate small independent corporations.

The Christian Kingdom cannot differentiate between the tentacles of Cthulhu, using finger puppets, to pretend that there are actual human beings cheering on the end to Democracy.

What do you expect, from a Kingdom that has accepted the Cognitive Dissonance of supporting people who practice the very evils the fight against ?

Members of that kingdom have turned from the care of members of their closed society, to worshipping wealth in the temple of their God/god.

Chrlistian Rome, the ultimate eternal corporation pushed until it was reduced to a city.

Money, influence, and power were joined in a in union of governments and religion.
The care and feeding of a worldwide corporation needs resources.

Who would pay for all the armor, weapons, and feed for the army busy making conquests ?

Ultimately, it was families, alone in the desert, butchered because the soldiers of the Crusade wanted to eat the meat on their bodies.

The soldiers cannibilized human beings that would have given them food, shelter, hospitality, friendship. The victims had the traditions of the desert, and knew no other way. They were not soldiers.

The soldiers that came upon these innocents, knew nothing but greed for treasure, rape, and killing for pleasure.

They used Christianity as an excuse, and looked for nothing more than paying tax to their country and paying tithe to their religious leaders.

The men joined the Crusade because they had nothing. They came to Eastern land equipped with nothing. They left the Crusades and raped Europe of resources, on their return.

Why waste good coin and valuable treasure in trade, when murder and theft is an option ?

Kill first, ask questions, later.

Familiar ring to it, does it not ?


Why did a woman of Rome murder French Christian Hugenots ?
Was it because of the twin desires of territory, wealth, and an agreement with the Vatican ?

Queen Margeruite left France.

His brothers did not profit.
They died.
The true king was murdered by poison.
The son who sided with his mother became king.
The younger son seeks his fortune.

Complicated alliances.

 

[phrodeau]

Planned Parenthood is going door-to-door in Florida's depressed neighborhoods, informing Floridians about zika risks. Naturally, Republicans are furious, and want to pull their funding.

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-...s-campaign-to-rid-miami-neighborhoods-of-zika

Congress became deadlocked over a White House request for $1.9 billion in emergency Zika funding after House Republicans added several riders to the bill — including provisions to defund Planned Parenthood.