The CDC is providing $60 million for local efforts to combat Zika virus, according to Roll Call.
Here are five notes:
1. The funding will go toward strengthening mosquito monitoring and controling, improving lab capacity, tracking and investigating Zika's epidemiology and supporting those who participate in a pregnancy registry that tracks women infected with Zika and their newborns.
2. CDC's funding comes in the wake of Congress' failure to appropriate $1.9 billion in emergency funding.
3. The CDC is funding the $60 million grant through its Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Infectious Diseases Cooperative Agreement.
4. The CDC reprogrammed $589 million in April to fight Zika.
5. The fund's timing is also essential as CDC recently reported it is working with Florida officials after the state began an investigation into a possible case of "non-travel-related Zika."
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