The House proposal calls for $350 million in unobligated Ebola funds to help fund their new $622 million proposal to fight Zika, about one-third of the $1.9 billion that President Obama has requested.

Americans were more worried about Ebola than they are about Zika. June 30, 2016. Everything you ever wanted to know about the Zika virus and its spread across North and South America.

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers are getting closer to steering additional money toward the effort to cope with the Zika virus. What they do not appear ready to do is plug a gaping hole in funding for ...

But the White House also made clear that the United States needs to be able to address both Ebola and Zika, and called on Congress to act immediately on its $1.9 billion request to battle Zika.

In an effort to take immediate action against the Zika virus, the White House said it will redirect $589 million of existing funds, including $510 million which had been designated to fight Ebola.

The worldwide threat of Ebola and Zika is new, but these two infectious diseases have been around for decades. The Ebola virus was first discovered in 1976, in what is now known as the Democratic ...

Just last week, the World Health Organization last week announced that the Zika virus was “spreading explosively.” Today, it declared Zika “a public health emergency of international concern ...

(TNS) - There is at least one major difference between Ebola and the Zika virus: Zika can’t be transmitted through “casual contact,” health officials said. So if a patients shows signs of ...

Zika virus infections are raising concerns about a form of fetal brain damage known as microcephaly. With the World Health Organization recently declaring it a global health emergency, scientists are ...

The Obama administration is looking to ease public fears over the Zika virus as it becomes increasingly likely that the mosquito-borne disease will spread to the U.S. White House spokesman Josh ...

The battle over Zika funding continues on Capitol Hill this week, as Senators are expected to move a new $1.1 billion bill forward and House Republicans work on a separate funding measure using ...