To spur action, my campaign has launched a petition on Change.org that has collected thousands of signatures, and I sent two of my top aides to Puerto Rico to see first-hand what more can be done to combat Zika's spread. They spent time meeting with government officials and health experts, visiting affected neighborhoods, and observing Zika-education efforts at a local Women, Infants, and Children clinic. They saw children playing around a flooded canal – a high-risk area for contracting mosquito-borne illnesses – in an area where most families cannot afford effective repellent. And even though there is an effort underway to rid the island of stagnant water pools where mosquitos can breed, Puerto Rican officials simply do not have the resources to contain the problem.