Stuck to the village, the United States is also not ready

The newspaper reporters in the United States Li-dan Chen

08:34 August 11, 2016

Source: People's Daily - the People's Daily

The original title: stuck to the village, America is not ready

On August 9, 4 cases were notified by Florida village card new cases of local transmission of the virus. On the same day, the Texas department of health has confirmed that recently the state to a baby girl was born shortly after the die in village card virus infection. This is the first time that Texas appear deaths associated with the village card virus, is also the first baby village card deaths from the virus infection.

Currently in the us have 47 states found the village card cases of infection, the vast majority of patients are infected when they travel abroad. As of August 3, the United States centers for disease control and prevention has received 1825 cases have been reported from the U.S. mainland, including a pregnant women HIV infections in high-risk groups has reached on July 28, 479. Since the end of walled CARDS began to spread the disease, there are about 40 million americans to travel to the Caribbean and South America, because the village card virus infected about eight chengdu not show symptoms, the United States centers for disease control and prevention estimates that, in fact, the number of infections in the United States is far higher than the reported Numbers.

The United States department of health, points out that the possibility of village card virus spread in the domestic large-scale is not high. Florida, but the government still nervous, according to the local health department predicted that local transmission case number will continue to rise. Florida governor rick Scott, reported in the latest outbreak of criticism at the same time the federal government to intervention is not enough: village card outbreak \"response to the outbreak of village card is not only the local affairs of Florida, but the whole thing in the United States.\" \"The federal government should stop the political game, congress should resume as soon as possible to solve the problem.\"

Since the beginning of this year, the White House and congress, Democrats and republicans will village card bickering about emergency response fund.

U.S. President barack Obama called on congress to pass in February totaled $1.9 billion in funding, is used to control the outbreak of village card, vaccines, and many other related areas of spending, but the republican response, the government should use earlier ebola earmarks \"surplus\". To mid-july, though both houses of congress passed its own version of appropriations bills, but due to the bill with bootleg party interests, and the two parties refused to compromise, the federal lawmakers in village card infections continue to increase still entered the seven weeks of the summer recess.

The U.S. department of health and human services secretary Sylvia, \"he said, the ministry of health of calls from the other project earlier this year by about $374 million in response to village card virus. Don't have the special funds, including part of the project may face no money available after the end of August. The us national institutes of health has recently launched village card vaccine clinical trials, but if the new funding is not in place before the end of August, the second phase of the vaccine clinical trials will have to be postponed.

Congress will resume until early September, this means that in the future one month, from federal to local government can't solve village card \"money shortage\" problem. The American media commentary, village card virus in the spread of local exposure before the United States in the face of such crises in general to inadequate preparation.

(this newspaper in Washington on August 10) --