U.S. Congress Should Fund Research Efforts To Manage Zika, Other Insect-Borne Diseases
Los Angeles Times: The Zika virus doesn’t respect borders. It’s time for immediate U.S. action
May Berenbaum, president of the Entomological Society of America
“…It should be obvious to lawmakers that it’s better — and cheaper — to manage Zika before the disease reaches crisis proportions in the U.S. … Emergency funding is unarguably necessary — but not sufficient. Stable, sustained financial support for research, including entomological research spanning mosquito genomics to ecology, is essential for anticipating and circumventing the next emerging or re-emerging mosquito-borne disease. … Congress should invest in research across the sciences, including entomology, to devise both immediate short-term and durable long-term solutions to this persistent challenge to human health” (3/21).
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