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BULLETIN, THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE AGGREGATION OF ZIKA NEWS.</td>
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NEWS <br /> SPONSORED BY THE INT'L ZIKA CONFERENCE <br />WASHINGTON, DC,
SEP 28-30, 2016</td>
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target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color:
#159b8b; font-size: 9.0pt;">Rep brings mosquitoes to House floor, as Zika
funding fight flares </a> <br />(Fox News) The Zika virus hit the floor of
the U.S. House Wednesday – if only figuratively – as a Florida
Republican sought to hammer home the "fear" his constituents feel by
bringing a container filled with mosquitoes with him inside the
chambers.</td>
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font-family: arial; line-height: 125%;" align="left"><a
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target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color:
#159b8b; font-size: 9.0pt;">WHO calls Zika virus 'most likely explanation'
for brain abnormalities</a> <br />(CBC News) Zika virus infection in
pregnancy is "the most likely explanation" behind congenital brain
abnormalities in babies including microcephaly, the World Health
Organization says. The United Nations health agency examined evidence from
outbreaks of Zika virus infection to update its previous statement in
March. The virus is also most likely a trigger of Guillain-Barré
syndrome (GBS).</td>
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font-family: arial; line-height: 125%;" align="left"><a
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target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color:
#159b8b; font-size: 9.0pt;">Zika Doubled Birth Defect Rate in Brazil, Study
Shows </a> <br />(Maggie Fox, NBC News) The arrival of Zika virus in Brazil
doubled the rate of birth defects involving the nervous system, including
microcephaly, researchers reported Wednesday.</td>
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font-family: arial; line-height: 125%;" align="left"><a
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#159b8b; font-size: 9.0pt;">Local health officials tracking mosquito found
in Indiana that could carry Zika virus</a> <br />(Alexis McAdams, Fox 59) A
new study is raising concern about human transmission of the Zika virus.
The U.S. study found genetic fragments of the virus in the eyes and tears
of lab mice that have Zika and researchers say it could be passed on
through contact, but more studies are required.</td>
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font-family: arial; line-height: 125%;" align="left"><a
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#159b8b; font-size: 9.0pt;">Private lab offering Zika virus testing</a> <br
/>(NBC2 News) With the ever present threat of the Zika virus growing in
Florida private businesses are starting to offer to test. Labs like My Test
Diagnostics in South Fort Myers has been testing for the virus since they
opened in August. Now they have been approved for the same testing being
offered at Florida health departments.</td>
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font-family: arial; line-height: 125%;" align="left"><a
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target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color:
#159b8b; font-size: 9.0pt;">Republican leaders face tough choices in
Congress this week</a> <br />(The Associated Press) Congress' Republican
leaders face decisions on averting a federal shutdown, containing the Zika
virus and impeaching the head of the IRS, with approaching elections
pressuring the GOP to avoid doing anything that could damage its standing
with voters.</td>
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font-family: arial; line-height: 125%;" align="left"><a
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target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color:
#159b8b; font-size: 9.0pt;">Capitol Hill Buzz: Mosquitoes on the House
floor</a> <br />(Mary Claire Jalonick, AP) Most people are trying to avoid
Florida mosquitoes, blamed for dozens of cases of the Zika virus. But
Republican Rep. David Jolly decided to make a point Wednesday by bringing a
container of them to the House floor.</td>
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#159b8b; font-size: 9.0pt;">DOH investigating origin of Zika virus in the
Philippines</a> <br />(Elyrose Naorbe, CNN Philippines) The Department of
Health (DOH) is tracing the origin of the Zika virus after a 45-year-old
married woman from the district of Jaro tested positive for it.</td>
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font-family: arial; line-height: 125%;" align="left"><a
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#159b8b; font-size: 9.0pt;">Mitch McConnell Suggests Swift Senate Action on
Spending Bill</a> <br />(Kristina Peterson, The Wall Street Journal) Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) told reporters Wednesday he had
begun negotiations with Senate Democrats and the White House over a
short-term spending bill that would keep the government open until Dec. 9.
The government's current funding expires at midnight on Sept. 30. Leaders
are also seeking to resolve a dispute over funding for efforts to combat
the Zika virus.</td>
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font-family: arial; line-height: 125%;" align="left"><a
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#159b8b; font-size: 9.0pt;">San Diego neighborhood sprayed with insecticide
to fight Zika virus</a> <br />(Paul Sisson, LA Times) Wearing protective
masks and backpacks that released bursts of insecticide fog into the air,
teams of county workers moved through two blocks of San Diego's Mount Hope
neighborhood Tuesday, targeting mosquitoes capable of carrying the Zika
virus.</td>
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font-family: arial; line-height: 125%;" align="left"><a
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#159b8b; font-size: 9.0pt;">Metro Health reports 10th Zika virus case in
San Antonio</a> <br />(Peggy O'Hare, The San Francisco Chronicle)
Metropolitan Health District reported today that a 10th person in San
Antonio has tested positive for the Zika virus. The patient became infected
with the virus while traveling outside the United States. No other
information about the patient was released.</td>
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font-family: arial; line-height: 125%;" align="left"><a
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target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color:
#159b8b; font-size: 9.0pt;">Why Democrats keep refusing to pass Zika
funding</a> <br />(Jonathan D. Salant, The Star-Ledger) The U.S. Senate
returned to work after a seven-week recess and immediately deadlocked
Tuesday over funding to combat the Zika virus. As they did before Congress
left for the summer, Senate Democrats refused to pass Zika legislation that
banned funding for Planned Parenthood, and Republicans refused to consider
a bill that didn't cut off money for the women's health care
provider.</td>
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#159b8b; font-size: 9.0pt;">Central Florida residents working to prevent
the spread of Zika </a> <br />(Summer Knowles, Wesh Orlando) Florida has
been the center of the Zika outbreak, and now, homegrown cases of the virus
are creeping closer to Central Florida. The latest numbers show nearly 596
travel-related Zika cases across the state and 56 non-travel-related cases.
Orange County leads the way, with a total of 68 cases, all travel-related,
but that could change.</td>
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#159b8b; font-size: 9.0pt;">8 new cases of Zika; new potential cluster at
Elite Terrace in Siglap</a> <br />(Chew Hui Min, The Straits Times) The
number of new Zika cases fell to eight on Wednesday (Sept 7), according to
figures from the Ministry of Health (MOH), but a new cluster could be
forming. As of noon, MOH has confirmed eight new cases of locally
transmitted Zika virus infection, of which two were linked to the Aljunied
Crescent/Sims Drive/Kallang Way/ Paya Lebar Way cluster.</td>
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#159b8b; font-size: 9.0pt;">Researchers Sequence Genome of Zika Virus
Reference Strain</a> <br />(Enrico de Lazaro, Sci-News) Researchers from
Germany, French Polynesia and the United Kingdom have successfully
sequenced and analyzed the genome of a World Health Organization reference
strain of Zika virus.</td>
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#159b8b; font-size: 9.0pt;">Zika virus poses few concerns for Colorado
schools</a> <br />(Ann Schimke, Chalkbeat) State and school district
officials here say they're armed with federal guidance about how to handle
Zika if it pops up among students, but so far it hasn't been an issue. The
state has tallied only 27 cases of Zika, all travel-related, according to
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.</td>
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