D.C. Monument Full of Zika Mosquitoes

The disease carriers are living in a birdbath just three blocks from where Congress has done nothing about them. The newest monument in Washington, D.C., is not a soaring stone obelisk or a bigger-than-life statue but a thigh-high cement birdbath.

Once two tiered, now one, the birdbath is no less apt a symbol of unconscionable inaction in the Capitol three blocks away. On each of the previous four years, the birdbath has produced living specimens of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, best known for carrying the Zika virus. FULL REPORT