Nearly three in four Americans want the U.S. to spend more money on researching the Zika virus and preventing its spread, a new survey finds.

A poll released Thursday morning by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that 73 percent of respondents want more research done on Zika and 72 percent want to invest more in preventing the birth defect-causing virus from spreading around the country.

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