America must step up funding to fight Zika: Your Say

Zika cases surfaced in Miami. The CDC recommended that pregnant women in the U.S. get assessed for exposure to the disease. Facebook comments edited for clarity and grammar:

To those comparing this to the overblown fears about Ebola, which is spread from person to person, Zika is spread via mosquitoes. I think that makes Zika more dangerous in terms of its ability to spread.

—Arnold Indictor

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This is very scary, especially since I am pregnant. I don’t live in Florida, but knowing that it can spread, I have taken extra precautions and stocked up on mosquito repellants.

—Patricia Mixon

The do-nothing Congress was asked for funding in February. It did nothing. It continues to do nothing. They couldn’t care less.

—MacArthur Summers

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Congress needs to approve Zika funding. Congress has done well supporting the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. The results have been millions of lives saved and a chance to control these three pandemics. Zika, on the other hand, has been argued over since February. Let’s call and write our representatives and encourage them to approve funding to protect mothers and children.

Willie Dickerson; Snohomish, Wash.