Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education: Hearing on Emerging Health Threats and the Zika Supplemental Funding Request

http://www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/labor-health-and-human-services-and-education-hearing-on-emerging-health-threats-and-the-zika-supplemental-funding-request

Date: Thursday, February 11, 2016Add to my CalendarTime: 10:00 AMLocation: Dirksen Senate Office Building 138

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Agenda

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Hearing to review emerging health threats and the Zika supplemental request

Witnesses

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1. Thomas R. Frieden, M.D.
   Director
   Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    
2. Anthony Fauci, M.D.
   Director
   National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Live Stream

 

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SD 138

http://www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/labor-health-and-human-services-and-education-hearing-on-emerging-health-threats-and-the-zika-supplemental-funding-request

 

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Thomas R. Frieden, M.D.

Chikungunya spread rapidly in Puerto Rico in 2014.

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Microcephaly explosion unprecedented.

40 Million Americans travel to Zika infected countries every year.

US territories (Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, American Samoa) expect spread as well as areas in US such as Texas and Florida,which may lead to microcephaly cases.

US detection test developed in a few weeks because of US funding support..

MMWR and NEJM papers yesterday show strong linkage between Zika and microcephaly.

 

Anthony Fauci, M.D.

Rubella vaccine example of success to control virus that affects unborn children.

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Phase I Zika vaccine slated for late summer.

$500,000,000 of appropriation targets Puerto Rico.

Due to risk and microcephaly as well as vector control.

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