The D.C. Monument Full of Zika Mosquitoes

[rangerrebew]

The D.C. Monument Full of Zika Mosquitoes
The disease carriers are living in a birdbath just three blocks from where Congress has done nothing about them.

The newest monument in Washington, D.C., is not a soaring stone obelisk or a bigger-than-life statue but a thigh-high cement birdbath.

Once two tiered, now one, the birdbath is no less apt a symbol of unconscionable inaction in the Capitol three blocks away.

On each of the previous four years, the birdbath has produced living specimens of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, best known for carrying the Zika virus.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/06/30/the-d-c-monument-full-of-zika-mosquitoes.html

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[flowers]

This country was taken over by a silent coup. I sure hope all that work at the Capital and Congress  don't get bit.

[Fishrrman]

flowers wrote:
"I sure hope all that work at the Capital and Congress  don't get bit..."

Heh.
I sure hope that they do!

[geronl]

Trump orders mosquito's shot down for crossing border!

[Smokin Joe]

This country was taken over by a silent coup. I sure hope all that work at the Capital and Congress  don't get bit.

CBS has a show "Brain Dead"...bugs explain it all in DC. And I don't watch much TV.

[Crazieman]

I'll believe they're serious about Zika when DDT is unbanned.

[rangerrebew]

I wonder if someone could capture them and release them at the Capitol and supreme soviet, nee court?

[mountaineer]

I'll believe they're serious about Zika when DDT is unbanned.

Exactly.

[Suppressed]

I'll believe they're serious about Zika when DDT is unbanned.

DDT is not banned.  It's especially not banned for vector control.

Of course, in places where it hasn't been restricted from agricultural use (e.g., India), they are finding it useless these days.

@Crazieman @mountaineer