Saturday, July 16, 2016

Congress Fails On Zika

Guardian UK: Congress's failure to fund Zika bill fuels fears virus will continue to spread - Government-funded clinical vaccine trials will grind to a halt by August without congressional action, researchers warn, as 1,300 have been diagnosed in US
Frustrated vaccine researchers predicted clinical trials would grind to a halt by August. Local mosquito control departments, without federal resources, will maintain wildly disparate resources, leaving some cities and towns with world-class virology laboratories and others with part-time, one-man operations expected to spray for a mosquito less susceptible to the controls which dominated the past two decades.

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