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mr. mcneil, is zika a new disease? >> no. it's thousands of years old but it was discovered in uganda in 1947. then it pretty much disappeared. there was some awareness that it was widespread in africa, in those days there was no routine tasks. you had to inject hundreds of mice with different antibodies to find out what was killing the mice. it then sifted to asia in the 1960s, we don't know when and then sometime in the early 2000 it began crossing the south pacific. print up on yap in micronesia that the americans lost and they realized it was a mild disease. print up in front polynesian 2013 and the french local polynesian investigated that outbreak and realized that there was a problem with gammaray syndrome. it's a temporary plow. they didn't notice any problem with babies. it was when they got to brazil in early 2014 that people were nervous about this new disease and thousands of people were getting killed, but they were mildly ill. when they realize it was zika the health administrator said it was good news. we thoug

mr. mcneil, is zika a new disease? >> no. it's thousands of years old but it was discovered in uganda in 1947. then it pretty much disappeared.

mcneil. >> thank you, mr. speaker. united kingdom of great britain and northern eye ireland will be 95 years old in december. a quarter of independent iceland and third of that independent ireland. given the prime minister's support irish independence on the benefits it brought its economy and population why does she oppose it for scotland? will she sew scotland the respect the eu showed the uk in regards to her referendum? >> i have to say to the honourable gentleman if he is looking at the issues around economic growth and he quoted figures for economic growth he should pay attention to the most important markets of scotland, the most important market for scotland is the market of the united kingdom and that's why scotland should remain part of it. >> thank you, mr. speaker. last week with support my right honourable friend said all party group for lyme disease. this debilitating a disease is a growing problem across the country, including my constituency of north dorsett. awareness of it amongst the public and vp's