Zika. I believe there is $1.1 billion in the funding bill before Congress. The US has decided to focus on a vaccine and HHS has repurposed funding to attempt to achieve that.
September 27, 2016
By Reuters' Staff
...As of September, (click here) the HHS has awarded at least
$433 million in repurposed funds to support Zika response and
preparedness activities.
This is extremely difficult research. It isn't a matter of growing an attenuated virus in an egg. This virus has characteristics that may not be stopped by an attenuated vaccine injection.
An attenuated vaccine is a vaccine created by reducing the virulence of a pathogen, but still keeping it viable (or "live"). Attenuation
takes an infectious agent and alters it so that it becomes harmless or
less virulent. These vaccines contrast to those produced by "killing"
the virus (inactivated vaccine).
This is very intense and dilligent work going on in those laboratories. The Democrats currently serving the USA are not playing politics with anyone's life. Before HHS distributed their funding, President Obama released funds very early on from his accounts.
REMEMBER THAT. When American lives are saved remember the people and their party affiliation that saved those lives!
