CDC: More money needed to fight Zika

Published June 15, 2016 1:08pm ET



The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday that the lack of new funding from Congress is making it harder to fight the Zika virus.

“We know there are many things we cannot do without supplemental appropriations,” CDC Director Tom Frieden during a briefing before Florida lawmakers on Wednesday.

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