What Really Threatens America: Zika, Cancer, or ISIS?

A Health Ministry employee fumigates a home against the Aedes aegypti mosquito to prevent the spread of the Zika virus, in Soyapango, 6 kilometers east of San Salvador, on Jan. 27, 2016. Health authorities have issued a national alert against the Aedes aegypti mosquito, vector of the Zika virus which might cause microcephaly and Guillain-Barré syndrome. Marvin Recinos/AFP/Getty Images

The unfolding information about the Zika virus and saddening images of babies infected with microcephaly should really scare us all.

The disease has spread “explosively“ throughout the Americas, with 36 cases currently reported in 12 states in the United States. No doubt that number will climb—rapidly.