Army labs get more funding for Zika research

 The Defense Department is providing $1.76 million in extra funding to military laboratories to expand Zika virus surveillance worldwide and assess the virus's impact on deployed service members' health and readiness, Navy Cmdr. Franca Jones said in a recent interview.

Jones, who holds a doctorate, is chief of the Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response, or GEIS, section of the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Branch in the Defense Health Agency's Public Health Division.


https://www.army.mil/article/168046/Army_labs_get_more_funding_for_Zika_research/