The Florida department of health announced seven new cases on Tuesday in which people contracted Zika from mosquitos in Miami Beach – the epicenter of the city's $24bn tourism industry – bringing the tally of homegrown cases above 50.
Ebola has now infected multiple people in America: The first two homegrown cases of Ebola are a pair of nurses who got sick after treating Thomas Duncan, the first person ever diagnosed with Ebola in the United States.
Still, the revelation of homegrown Zika cases prompted a groundswell of calls on Congress to provide more funding.
Is it a simple case of homegrown verses imported services?
The German Police Federation said the shootings were the first case of homegrown terrorism inspired by radical Islamic propaganda disseminated over the Internet.
Barack Obama said the killer apparently self-radicalized through the internet, saying the shooting appears to be a case of "homegrown extremism".
If the announced details hold up under scrutiny, it means that Germany, like Britain, has become a target for sophisticated homegrown terrorism, and the case will fan the debate over the balance between civil liberties and public security.
An alternative way to make sense of Dear's behavior is to see it in this light: as a case of homegrown terrorism perpetrated by a disgruntled white man who lashed out at an institution that has, in certain circles, become a symbol of thoroughgoing evil.
