Obama signs Zika treatment bill

Published April 19, 2016 11:32pm ET



President Obama signed a bill aimed at speeding up development of vaccines and treatments to fight the quickly spreading Zika virus, while his administration battles with Congress over more money to fight the virus.

The law enables a drugmaker who makes a treatment or vaccine for the Zika virus to receive a voucher that can be spent to give another drug a faster review time. Currently there are no treatments or vaccines for Zika, which is spread primarily through mosquitoes.

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