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The GOP Congress Must Stop Hurting the Zika Fight

Posted May 16th, 2016 at 12:39 pm (UTC-5)
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Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Mathews Burwell told us this week that, although the administration has already shifted about half a billion dollars from fighting Ebola to the battle against Zika, that is not enough….Without full emergency funding, she said, research on creating a vaccine and work on badly needed diagnostics will slow…

The Zika Virus Isn’t Just an Epidemic. It’s Here to Stay.

Posted February 1st, 2016 at 11:27 am (UTC-5)
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Until we have an effective vaccine and have executed mammoth immunization campaigns in all of the nations of the Americas, Zika will haunt us, sicken some of us, and endanger our babies.