“That’s information that we don’t have right now”, she said.
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She argued that Congress should pass the bipartisan bill passed in the Senate, or “come up with a new compromise” that gets “resources moving as quickly as possible”.
Clinton is pushing for the creation of a rapid diagnostic test for Zika and research and development for a vaccine. There are now 21 total cases of locally transmitted Zika within a 1-sq. -mile (2.6-sq. -km) area in Miami-Dade County.
Late on Monday, the health department announced the first known case of Zika contracted on the islands, by a man who had also not travelled to affected countries.
A baby born with brain defects caused by the mosquito-borne Zika virus has died in Texas, marking the state’s first Zika-related death, officials meawnwhile said Tuesday.
The mother had become infected with Zika while traveling in Latin America, and gave birth to the baby in Harris County near Houston, according to the state health department.
The CDC is sending $3.6 million Indiana’s way so the state’s health department can better monitor Zika and aid in prevention efforts. Travel-related means she was bitten by an infected mosquito on her trip.
The ongoing Zika outbreak was first detected a year ago in Brazil, where it has been linked to more than 1,700 cases of the birth defect microcephaly.
There have been 27 recorded cases of the virus in IN, all of them travel-related. State public health veterinarian Jennifer Brown said because the mosquito that most often carries the virus isn’t native to the state, the odds of local transmission and spread are very low.
There have been no reported cases of Zika virus disease transmitted by mosquitoes in Texas, but the state is on alert for the possibility of local transmission.
Texas, the second largest state in the nation, has reported 97 cases of Zika virus disease, including the two infants with microcephaly from the Harris County.
Speaking at a health center near the epicenter of the Zika crisis in Miami on Tuesday, Hillary Clinton called on Congress to return to Washington “immediately” and pass emergency funding to combat the spread of the disease.
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Host Phil Ponce talks to U.S Rep. Robin Kelly (D-2nd District) about the federal response to the Zika virus, in addition to the heated presidential race and Chicago’s gun violence that has grabbed national headlines. “The federal government must stop playing politics and Congress needs to immediately come back to session to resolve this”.
