referring to washingtonpost
Despite new Zika funds, states might not get any for months
Despite new Zika funds, states might not get any for months
A Dallas County mosquito lab staffer sorts mosquitoes collected in February near the location of a confirmed Zika infection.(LM Otero/AP)Newly approved Zika funding isn't likely to reach states and localities for several more months because of the federal goverment's budgeting process, health officials said Monday.After months of partisan feuding, Congress last week approved a budget bill that includes $1.1 billion to fight the Zika crisis.
besides washingtontimes
HHS outlines plans for new Zika money
HHS outlines plans for new Zika money
The Obama administration said Monday it can start developing better ways to detect the Zika virus and knock out mosquitos that carry the disease, while forging ahead with a vaccine trial that began in August, now that Congress has broken a months-long stalemate and posted $1.1 billion for the fight.The Department of Health and Human Services will receive the lion's share of the new Zika funding — $933 million — and split most of it between mosquito surveillance and vaccine development through the National Institutes of Health and a research authority known as BARDA, which is supporting several private-sector trials.HHS will use some of the mosquito-control money to backfill $44 million in public health and emergency funds that it swiped from states to get started on Zika, which can cause serious birth defects, while Congress bickered over a $1.9 billion request that President Obama submitted in February.
in the same way sciencemag
U.S. officials welcome new Zika funding, but say delays hurt
U.S. officials welcome new Zika funding, but say delays hurt
Top officials from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in Washington, D.C., spelled out in a teleconference today how a shortage of funding to combat the Zika virus forced them to poach money that otherwise would have gone to addressing cancer, tuberculosis, malaria, Ebola, substance abuse, mental health, and the needs of children and families.These officials, including HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell, made clear that they breathed a sigh of relief when President Barack Obama on 29 September signed a temporary spending measure that includes $1.1 billion to combat the spread of the virus in the United States and abroad.But Burwell noted that total is $800 million less than the $1.9 billion the White House requested this past February, with hopes that Congress would provide the funds by midsummer.
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