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Zika Virus May Be in Florida — and Congress Is on Vacation
Zika Virus May Be in Florida — and Congress Is on Vacation
Florida health officials are checking on the latest case of Zika virus there — in someone who doesn't appear to have traveled to an affected zone and who doesn't appear to have been infected sexually by a traveler.
This may turn out to be the first instance of Zika spreading locally in the continental U.S.
If so, it will fulfill predictions made by the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the top infectious disease doctor at the National Institutes of Health, as well as countless experts in mosquito-borne diseases.
But Congress went home last week for a seven-week summer break without appropriating the money that top health officials have asked for.
The failure to approve the funds has flabbergasted top public health officials, doctors in the trenches and academic researchers alike.
This may turn out to be the first instance of Zika spreading locally in the continental U.S.
If so, it will fulfill predictions made by the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the top infectious disease doctor at the National Institutes of Health, as well as countless experts in mosquito-borne diseases.
But Congress went home last week for a seven-week summer break without appropriating the money that top health officials have asked for.
The failure to approve the funds has flabbergasted top public health officials, doctors in the trenches and academic researchers alike.
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/zika-virus-outbreak/zika-virus-may-be-florida-congress-vacation-n613676
