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Robbing Ebola To Pay For Zika: Playing With Fire?

 
• By Donna Young

Since early this year, the Obama administration has been shifting money around to cover the costs of the work being done by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the FDA and other federal agencies to address the Zika crisis in the Americas and to prepare the US for the invasion of the virus.

Since early this year, the Obama administration has been shifting money around to cover the costs of the work being done by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the FDA and other federal agencies to address the Zika crisis in the Americas and to prepare the US for the invasion of the virus.

But now, the sources of those funds have dried up and because the Republican-controlled Congress has been reluctant to grant...

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