’Politics of Zika are garbage’: Florida lawmaker brings 100 mosquitoes onto House floor

‘To overcome the unwillingness of Congress to pass a bill to combat Zika, Representative David Jolly (R-Florida) decided to put the fear of God ‒ or, more specifically, disease-bearing mosquitoes ‒ into his fellow House lawmakers.
“I rise today to talk about Zika,” Jolly began, holding a clear, plastic container filled with water on the House floor. “And I rise with about a hundred mosquitoes straight from Florida.”
The Aedes aegypti mosquitoes he brought with him are not active carriers of the disease, he promised. “But they could be.”’
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