The entire Florida congressional delegation wants the federal government to give more funding to the state to fight the Zika virus, which is spreading by mosquito bites in a small area of Miami.
House and Senate lawmakers with both parties wrote to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday to ask the agency to change its formula for allocating funding to fight the virus, which causes a mild illness and is linked to a birth defect called microcephaly.
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