'Scarier than we initially thought:' CDC sounds warning on Zika virus: Updated

'Scarier than we initially thought:' CDC sounds warning on Zika virus

WASHINGTON — Public bloom admiral said Monday they've abstruse a lot added about Zika back the Obama administering fabricated a $1.9 billion appeal to Congress to action the mosquito-borne virus, and are added anxious about its abeyant appulse on the United States.

"Most of what we've abstruse is not reassuring," said Dr. Anne Schuchat, the arch agent administrator of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "Everything we apperceive about this virus seems to be scarier than we initially thought."

She said the virus has been affiliated to a broader arrangement of bearing defects throughout a best aeon of pregnancy. The abeyant geographic ambit of the mosquitoes transmitting the virus aswell alcove further northward, and now includes 30 states. And it can be advance sexually, causing the CDC to amend its advice to couples.

But advisers don't apperceive how abounding babies of women adulterated with Zika will end up with bearing defects, or what drugs and vaccines may be effective.

"This is a actual abnormal virus that we can't pretend to apperceive aggregate about it that we charge to know," said Dr. Anthony Fauci, administrator of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

The assessment, delivered to reporters at the White House Monday, comes the anniversary afterwards the White House abreast Congress it was affective added than $510 actor ahead appropriate for Ebola blockage against Zika blockage efforts.

Congressional Republicans accused the White House of aggravating to "politicize" Zika. "We’re animated the administering has agreed to our appeal to use absolute Ebola funds to abode the Zika epidemic," said Doug Andes, a agent for House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis. "If added Zika assets are bare those funds could and should be addressed through the approved appropriations process."

"We can't just stop and delay for the money. If we don't get the money the admiral has asked for, we're not traveling to yield it to the point we need," Fauci said. "When the admiral asked for $1.9 billion, we bare $1.9 billion."

The Centers for Disease Control appear Monday it was accouterment $3.9 actor in emergency Zika allotment to Puerto Rico. adage the amount of cases there is acceleration every anniversary and could ability into the hundreds of thousands. The money will go to added class capacity.

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