Funding from US Health department helped to start Zika vaccine research by Fauci, Further he extended a new Zika support. Stating that it’s enough to begun not enough to get a finished product.
The NIH invests nearly $32.3 billion annually in medical research for their citizen. Out of $32.30 billion, 589 $ million or more than 80% of the NIH's funding has been granted to 0.3 million researchers of more than 2500 universities all over the globe. 10% of the NIH budget supports its own lab.
Since it demands more money for the Zika research officials have shifted $47 million of funds from the Ebola research, they used $238 million up to date.
Researcher of NIH Donovan said fund shift is need of the hour and helps to acute activities such as vector control, Zika diagnosis and vaccines. Supporting Zika ill baby’s and mothers, mapping the epidemiology for the preventive measures.
US Health officials are insisting congress to approve approximately $2 billion emergency Zika funding for the outbreak and to compensate Ebola funds as well.
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