spent three weeks emailing and calling Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties for help, and
said she has even driven to hospital after hospital in hopes that someone will tell her how or where she might secure for him a potentially life-saving vaccine.
“How do you tell your husband, who’s been waiting for this for months, that he’s fallen between the cracks?” she said. “I’m still going to try. I’m not giving up, but I’m beating my head against the wall.”
Marinaccio’s frustration mirrors that of millions of Floridians who are unable to obtain either a vaccine or answers about future availability for one from state or local agencies.
PUNTA GORDA – The day is overcast, with a slight drizzle. And that makes the young lizards in Ty Park’s hands look even more dazzling, the rainbow as a living organism. They are contrasting shades of green and yellow and grey and sherbet orange – but they’re the same species, commonly known as the green iguana.
Cultivated genetic variations account for the diverse colors, and the specimens here carry traits for hypomelanism, or reduced pigmentation. That means they can be bred for albinism, or pretty much any shade within the spectrum of their recessive genes. And in this subculture of reptile breeding and conservation, affable Ty Park is a superstar when it comes producing dazzling “color morphs,” or “living art.”