In a Thursday letter to House and Senate leaders, HHS Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell said she is transferring $34 million within the National Institutes of Health for Zika virus vaccine research, as well as shifting another $47 million to a biomedical-preparedness agency... The Obama administration Thursday said it will transfer a total of $81 million within the Department of Health and Human Services to keep Zika vaccine research going in light of an impasse in Congress over a funding package to tackle the spread of the virus.

Source: Wall Street Journal August 11, 2016 23:37 UTC