Public health officials fear Trump budget cuts in fight against Zika virus quoting : USA TODAY

Public health officials have been down this road before. "We cannot wait until there's a fire to want to go out and buy a fire a truck," says Oscar Alleyne, NACCHO's senior adviser for public health programs. Claude Jacob is chief public health office for the city of Cambridge, Mass. President Trump's budget proposed huge cuts to the agencies dedicated to — and most effective at — fighting Zika at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other public health services, said NACCHO President Claude Jacob. But possible funding cuts and efforts to weaken prenatal care will jeopardize that.




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