(Washington Times) President Obama's top public health officials told Congress on Wednesday that there isn't enough leftover Ebola funding to fight the Zika virus and said Republicans will need to find another $2 billion to combat the mosquito-borne illness.
Key figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health said they are obligated to keep fighting Ebola in West Africa and that there is no extra money in their budgets — meaning Congress will either have to find places to cut elsewhere or shortchange the anti-Zika effort.
Anthony Fauci, the NIH's director of infectious diseases, said he has spent almost his entire Ebola budget and had to shift other money to get a jump-start on Zika — but now they need more money to proceed.
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