Sentences with phrase «fight zika»
But if Congressional Republicans had their way, this important community - based health care provider would be excluded from emergency funds to fight Zika — that's the last thing we should be doing in a public health emergency.
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President Barack Obama had asked Congress back in February for $ 1.9 billion to help fight Zika, but lawmakers haven't been able to agree on a spending plan.
U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt, R - Mo., says the Senate is likely to vote by next week on money to be used to fight the Zika virus, the disease spread by mosquitoes and blamed for thousands of debilitating birth defects in South and Central America.
«This collaboration has been about each partner sharing their unique resources and expertise — samples, protocols, analyses, insights — to help understand and fight Zika,» said Thiago Moreno L. Souza, a study co-senior author and senior research scientist at Fundação Oswaldo Cruz in Rio de Janiero, Brazil.
For now, the only way to fight Zika is to target the mosquitoes that carry it.
«This collaboration has been about each partner sharing their unique resources and expertise — samples, protocols, analyses, insights — to help understand and fight Zika,» said Thiago Moreno L. Souza, a study co-senior author and senior research scientist at Fundação Oswaldo Cruz in Rio de Janiero, Brazil.
«The map behind me is a graphic illustration of the need for immediate congressional action,» said Earnest, urging Congress to heed President Barack Obama's 3 - month - old request to pump $ 1.9 billion in emergency aid to fight Zika.
With mosquito season starting, Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand pushed Congress to approve $ 1.1 billion to fight the Zika virus.
Even so, the city pledged $ 21 million to a three - year plan to fight Zika that includes funding for research and testing of mosquitoes as well as preventive measures.
At 10:45 a.m., Rep. Nita Lowey will hold a press conference to call for expedited approval in the House of a bill to fund efforts to fight the Zika virus, 222 Mamaroneck Ave., Suite 312, White Plains.
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is calling on the Department of Health and Human Services to use its funds to fight Zika instead of paying for ObamaCare outreach.
U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer vowed to fight for President Obama's proposal to spend $ 1.9 billion to fight the Zika virus.
Democratic U.S. senators rejected a $ 1.1 billion measure to fight the Zika virus, saying Republicans had inserted a ban on funding for Planned Parenthood to provide related contraceptive services.
It marks the third time this year that Scott has ordered the state to spend money fighting Zika.
«The White House's decision... to shift $ 589 million in unspent Ebola response funding to fighting Zika won't require cutting any Ebola research supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH),» Puneet Kollipara wrote last Friday.
Not exact matches
The news comes just over a week after the World Health Organization declared Zika was no longer a «public health emergency,» indicating that the disease was now a threat it would be fighting long term, like malaria or yellow fever.
He stressed that Rubio has been a leader in the fight for funding for Zika treatment in Florida.
Dr. Scott Gottlieb, American Enterprise Institute, talks about fighting the spread of Zika and why Puerto Rico must ramp up efforts to contain the virus.
Dr. Scott Gottlieb, American Enterprise Institute Resident Fellow, discusses the Zika threat in the U.S. and how to the fight against the virus is progressing.
Both Reid and Florida Senator Marco Rubio, a Republican, renewed calls for lawmakers in the House and Senate to return to Washington to authorize funding to help public health officials fight the spread of Zika.
MTA Chairman Thomas Prendergast (left) and Gov. Andrew Cuomo (center) announce new mosquito fighting tactics to prevent the proliferation of the Zika virus.
New York's fight against the Zika virus focuses on travel precautions and urging people to have safe sex.
Millions of dollars was repaid to states and U.S. territories that was borrowed earlier this year in an emergency move to combat the Zika virus, but states will have to apply for additional funds if they want to fight mosquitoes and monitor pregnant women.
At a news conference in White Plains, Congresswoman Nita Lowey demanded the House of Representatives break from summer recess and pass a $ 1.1 billion Senate bill that would continue to fund the fight against the Zika virus.
Congress must only pass a short - term spending bill that would prevent the government from shutting down on Oct. 1, and, more daunting, pass a bill that would provide money for the fight against the Zika virus.
But the two New York Democrats blasted a competing House bill because it would take $ 352 million now dedicated to fighting Ebola, which they said is critically needed, and instead use it for Zika.
There is the painstaking work of taxonomists who continue to catalogue the earth's estimated 10 quintillion insects; the Greek island beekeepers; and the Zika - fighting mosquitoes in Brazil.
Pyrethroids have also played a role in the fight against Aedes aegypti, the main mosquito transmitting the yellow fever, dengue, and Zika viruses, even though bed nets are less effective against A. aegypti because it predominantly bites people outdoors and during the day.
The World Health Organization has recognized these mosquitoes as possible tools for fighting the spread of mosquito - borne Zika virus.
In addition to revealing Zika's history, genetic studies are also valuable in fighting current and future disease outbreaks.
This future drug is just one part of the fight against Zika.
Zika can cause babies to be born with severe brain damage — but we may be able to harness the virus to fight brain tumours in adults.
This synthetic vaccine will hopefully trigger in recipients an antibody response that will help fight off any Zika virus it encounters.
During the September Congressional fight over how much to provide and whether to offset it, Mulvaney posted a Facebook update in which he questioned the relationship between Zika and birth defects, and asked whether «we really need government - funded research at all» given this alleged uncertainty.
The fetuses without the receptor still grew poorly due to the Zika infection, which is expected given their inability to fight the infection.
«We observed rapid and durable protective immunity without adverse events, and so we think this candidate vaccine represents a promising strategy for the global fight against Zika virus,» said senior author Drew Weissman, MD, PhD, a professor of Infectious Disease at Penn. «We hope to start clinical trials in 12 to 18 months.»
The researchers believe such processes provide information that could be exploited to fight mosquito - borne diseases, such as dengue fever, chikungunya and Zika virus.
Otherwise, besides losing this fight against Zika, it is just a matter of time until the next menace arrives.»
The ongoing Zika virus outbreak in Latin America and the Caribbean has created an urgent need for identifying small animal models as a first step toward developing vaccines and treatments to fight the infection.
The struggle in Brazil shows that the fight against the Zika virus, and against other diseases transmitted by Ae.
Discussion of people fighting the spread of Zika virus and other exotic diseases — big threats despite their minuscule size — makes the book especially timely.
Unmanned autonomous vehicles designed to help combat the Zika virus, ethical and safety considerations related to new human gene - editing tools, advances in the fight against cancer and U.S. science policy following the presidential election will be a few of this year's headlines at the world's largest general scientific conference.
Previous laboratory studies have shown that antibodies produced by the human immune system to fight dengue virus can also interact with Zika virus (ZIKV) without inactivating it.
«Study raises possibility of naturally acquired immunity against Zika virus: Virus - fighting antibodies in mothers pass protection to unborn fetus.»
It's not nearly enough money for a full - fledged fight against Zika, said White House budget director Shaun Donovan.
U.S. health regulators said a genetically engineered mosquito being used in the fight against Zika will not have a significant impact on the environment, possibly paving the way for the technique to be used in the country.
State officials have approved a controversial plan to fight diseases such as Zika and dengue with genetically engineered insects
«Zika may cause miscarriages, thin brain tissue in babies carried to term: Using unique mouse model, researchers believe they can develop treatment or vaccine targets in order to fight virus.»
Scientists at Southern Research are heavily involved in the global fight against Zika, and are examining five different strains of the virus in a broad - based effort to penetrate the mysteries -LSB-...]
New information about how and where the innate immune system fights off viral infections that enter through the skin could lead to better treatments for viruses like Zika, dengue and measles, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers.