Re: Aug. 2 news story.
While the individual cases of the Zika virus causing microcephaly in babies are truly tragic, it is clear that the chickens have come home to roost, or rather that the Zika vector mosquitoes have come home to roost. It is difficult to have much sympathy for the people of Florida (and soon the rest of the Gulf Coast) who have consistently voted for candidates who decimated women’s health care clinics in the name of “pro-life,” are against the Affordable Care Act, and are represented by national politicians who have locked up the funding for fighting Zika in a snit with our president. You get what you vote for.
Mark Leachman, Lakewood
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