Zika funding to be well spent, officials say

CNN: Rest assured, America: The billion dollars Congress just gave the fight on Zika will be well spent, even if it's not enough and much too late.
That's the message from Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell and key public health officials Monday.

"We did not wait for legislation because the threat was too great," said Burwell. "We redirected hundreds of millions of dollars from other vital priorities to fund vector control activities and vaccine and diagnostic research and development."

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