Tag: combat-the-zika
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Clinton urges U.S. Congress to reconvene, pass Zika bill
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton urged federal lawmakers currently on summer recess back into session to pass a crucial funding bill to combat the Zika virus as she visited a health clinic at the heart of a local outbreak in Miami on Tuesday. Lawmakers should pass the $1.1 billion bipartisan bill for the mosquito-borne…
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Clinton urges U.S. Congress to reconvene, pass Zika bill
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton urged federal lawmakers currently on summer recess back into session to pass a crucial funding bill to combat the Zika virus as she visited a health clinic at the heart of a local outbreak in Miami on Tuesday. Lawmakers should pass the $1.1 billion bipartisan bill for the mosquito-borne…
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Olympics-Drop in alkalinity to blame for green pool-Rio organisers
* FINA says water tanks ran out of chemicals * Pool water to turn blue later on Wednesday (Updates with FINA reaction, Canada team, details) By Karolos Grohmann RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 10 (Reuters) – The Rio Olympics diving pool will be back to its blue colour later on Wednesday, Games organisers assured, blaming a…
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Channels at Charlotte whitewater center reopen
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The whitewater channels at the U.S. National Whitewater Center in North Carolina have reopened six weeks after a visitor died from a brain-eating amoeba.
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World Bank offers $150 million in financing to Zika-affected countries
By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The World Bank said on Thursday it is making $150 million in financing immediately available to help combat the Zika virus outbreak in affected Latin American and Caribbean countries. The World Bank also released initial projections for the economic impact of the largely mosquito-borne virus, saying it expects it…