Ms. Burwell said that 15 infants had been born with Zika-related birth defects. Ms. Burwell said she would transfer to the Zika efforts $34 million in N.I.H. The deadlock prompted the White House in April to shift $589 million in Ebola funding to the Zika effort, about two-thirds of it designated for domestic use. On Thursday, Ms. Burwell said that her department had used most of that money, and that it would be gone by the end of August. That would force the development of a vaccine to stop at a critical time, as locally acquired cases of Zika infection increase in Miami.

Source: New York Times August 12, 2016 00:11 UTC