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same way it selected someone to coordinate the
administration's response to Ebola.
Earnest says the differing responses from the
administration reflect the significant difference
between the two diseases. The Ebola virus is
often fatal if untreated. He says that for women
who are not pregnant and for men, the impact of
contracting the Zika virus is generally mild.
Earnest says he anticipates that any response in
the U. S. that requires more federal funding
would go toward building up the nation's broader
health infrastructure.
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Brazil's Health Ministry says it's now recorded
4,120 suspected cases of microcephaly, a rare
brain defect in babies that officials fear may be
linked to the spread of the mosquito-borne Zika
virus.
But Wednesday's report says only 270 of those
cases have been confirmed. And microcephaly