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Leading the News
Zika
“scarier” than initially thought, CDC official says
USA Today (4/11,
Korte) reports, “Public health officials said Monday they’ve learned a lot
more about Zika since the White House asked Congress for $1.9 billion to
combat the mosquito-borne virus and are increasingly concerned about its
potential impact on the” US. Dr. Anne Schuchat, the principal deputy director
of the CDC, said, “Everything we look at with this virus seems to be a bit
scarier than we initially thought.” Dr. Schuchat “said the virus has been
linked to a broader array of birth defects throughout a longer period of
pregnancy, including premature birth and blindness in addition to the smaller
brain size caused by microcephaly.”
The New York Times (4/11,
Davis, Subscription Publication) reports that “the mosquito that carries the
Zika virus is present in 30 states, more than twice what officials originally
thought, Dr. Schuchat said, though no locally acquired cases have been
reported yet,” which “indicates that mosquitoes in the states do not yet have
the virus.”
The AP (4/11,
Neergaard) reports that although President Obama “has sought about $1.9
billion in emergency money to help fight the Zika epidemic internationally
and to prepare in case the virus spreads in the U.S....the request has
stalled in the Republican-controlled Congress.” Just “last week, the
administration said it would use $589 million in funds left over from the
Ebola outbreak for some of that work.” However, “that ‘is not enough for us
to get the job done,’ said Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of
Health, whose agency hopes to have a possible vaccine ready for first-stage
safety testing in early fall.”
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