Rio, Brazil (WOLO) — There are new concerns swarming around the Zika Virus in our nations Capitol and beyond. The house has now approved a bill for 622 Billion dollars to help fight the mosquito born virus, but that is not help quell fears in Brazil where the Olympics are set to take place this summer. Click here to find…
Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., left, accompanied by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., speaks about Zika funding during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 17, 2016. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) The battle over Zika funding continues on Capitol Hill this week, as Senators are expected to move a new $1.1 billion bill forward and House Republicans…
The mosquitoes that can spread Zika are already buzzing among us. The U.S. government could use some help figuring out exactly where. No experience is necessary for what the U.S. Department of Agriculture envisions as a nationwide experiment in citizen-science. Teenagers already have proven themselves up to the task in tryouts involving a small number of high school students and…
The 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil could cause a “full-blown public health disaster” because of the Zika virus unless the event is postponed, relocated or canceled, according to a new report published in the Harvard Public Review. Dr. Richard E. Besser, ABC News’s chief health and medical editor, highlighted five things that report author Amir Attaran identifies in defense of…
A Connecticut teenager says she was shocked she tested positive for the Zika virus after learning she was pregnant. Seventeen-year-old Sara Mujica of Danbury says she learned she was pregnant in March while visiting her fiance in Honduras. At the time of the pregnancy test, she said she was getting over an illness that gave her rashes, headaches and neck…
Health officials stressed today that they are doing everything they can to minimize Zika outbreaks in the U.S. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institute of Health, said at a press conference today he thought it was “very likely” that Zika virus would spread from mosquitoes to humans in the…
Zika virus infections have been either confirmed or are being investigated in 19 pregnant women in the U.S., the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention said today.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — President Barack Obama is asking Congress for more than $1.8 billion in emergency funding to help fight the Zika virus. In an announcement Monday, the White House said the money would be used to expand mosquito control programs, speed development of a vaccine, develop diagnostic tests and improve support for low-income pregnant women. Zika virus disease is…
MIAMI (AP) — Florida Gov. Rick Scott says the state has three new cases of Zika and he’s adding a fifth county to his health emergency declaration. Scott said Thursday at a news conference in Tampa that the 12 cases in Florida are all from people who became infected with the mosquito-borne virus when they traveled to other countries. Florida’s…
Tata Motors announced that it has decided to rename its soon-to-be launched hatchback “ZICA” car. (ABC News) — The Zika virus has prompted Indian automaker Tata Motors to rename its soon-to-be-released hatchback vehicle, which had been given the untimely name of “Zica,” short for “Zippy Car.” “Empathizing with the hardships being caused by the recent ‘Zika’ virus outbreak across many…
