Betsy McCaughey Speaks at the CATS Roundtable Radio Show

Interview Highlights

“The Zika virus originated in Africa, it was first discovered in 1947…lately there has been a huge outbreak of this virus in South America. It is carried by mosquitoes. If a mosquito bites someone who has the virus and that mosquito flies on and bites another person that second person also gets the virus….1.6 million people have been infected.”

The CDC “flatly told me that they are not going to assist local communities within the U.S. to eradicate mosquitoes and yet all across the southern U.S. they are at risk year round…right now its only a travel disease, only people in South America have it…travelers are bringing it back to our southern states…mosquitoes will bite someone in the U.S. who has been infected and that’s how the disease will start being endemic in the U.S. as well.”

About Betsy McCaughey

Betsy McCaughey was the 72nd Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1995 to 1998. She has been a fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute and Hudson Institute think tanks. She founded the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths (RID) in reaction to a rise in anti-biotic resistant infections. She appears regularly on Fox News, CNN and many radio shows to discuss her research and how to prevent infection deaths.