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(By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n
Every day there are headlines about the Zika virus.<\/p>\n
The number of travel-related cases is growing, and public health officials \u2014 especially in states such as Florida<\/a>, which could be among the hardest hit \u2014 predict it is only a matter of time until the first locally transmitted case is confirmed. They are scrambling<\/a> to prepare strategies to combat Zika\u2019s spread. On the research front, at least one private pharmaceutical company is slated to begin human trials on a Zika vaccine in the fall<\/a>, and National Institutes of Health researchers hope to bring their version to clinical trials as soon as summer\u2019s end. But on Capitol Hill, efforts to approve emergency funding to support all of these initiatives are being held up<\/a> by partisan disputes. Read article here……,<\/a><\/p>\n Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n
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