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Florida / Michael Doyle / Laura Pratt / Zika #1172873

CBS Evening News for Tuesday, May 17, 2016
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It's a race against time to kill mosquitoes that carry Zika the virus linked to birth defects. Today the Senate approved just over one billion dollars for the battle but that's only about half of what the president asked for. The House majority wants even less. Six hundred and twenty two million all the Zika cases in the U.S. have been in people who traveled from Latin America. But health officials expect mosquito borne infections will occur here soon. David Begnaud is in Florida. There are over...
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David Begnaud
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00:02:26

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