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Senate Leaders Hold Talks Aimed At Compromise Over Zika Response Funding, Stopgap Spending Measure
CNN: Senate leaders report progress in talks over Zika and government funding “Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who is anxious to both head off the threat of a government shutdown and preserve his Republican majority, announced Wednesday he is in talks with Senate Democrats and the White House to extend funding for federal agencies until…More Read more
Zika Likely Spreading Undetected In Haiti, Experts Say
NPR: Why The Low Zika Numbers In Haiti Might Be Wrong “The Dominican Republic has identified nearly 1,000 pregnant women suspected of being infected with the Zika virus. Haiti, which shares the same island, has identified only 22. … Doctors at public, private, and religious hospitals say they’re seeing an increase in babies born with…More Read more
Editorials, Opinion Pieces Discuss Congressional Stalemate On U.S. Zika Response
Bloomberg View: Why Congress Needs to Vote Again on Zika Editorial Board “…[P]rogress [against Zika] on all fronts — not just drug development but mosquito eradication, diagnostic testing, and research to understand all of Zika’s effects — will be delayed without adequate federal funding. The money that the National Institutes of Health and the Centers…More Read more
News Outlets Examine Congress’s Science-, Health-Related Docket As Session Resumes
CQ HealthBeat: Zika, Public Health, Cures Top Health Agenda “Lawmakers return this week with plans to address one big ticket health-related item: funding to address the Zika virus. They also plan to move forward with lower-ranked priorities like markups of public health legislation and a hearing on post-acute care legislation that would affect services people…More Read more
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