US Lawmakers Warned Against Short-Changing Ebola to Fight Zika

U.S. lawmakers and international health officials warned against siphoning funds for Ebola to fight the Zika virus one day after the Obama administration announced plans to do just that. “While new cases of Ebola have been dramatically reduced, Ebola is not over. And the conditions that made it an epidemic persist,” said Democratic Senator Ed Markey at a hearing of the Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Africa. More than 11,000 people died of Ebola in West Africa in 2014 and 2015,...

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