The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Friday said that immediate funding is needed for vaccine development and aggressive mosquito control in the U.S. to blunt the effects of the Zika virus.
“What could happen is … we’ll have to delay the vaccine,” Dr. Anthony Fauci said at a forum on Zika sponsored by the Bipartisan Policy Center. “So we haven’t delayed anything up to now, but if we don’t get money soon, it’s going to have a ripple effect down the pike.”
