On Sunday afternoon, the National Institutes of Health received its first Ebola patient. An American physician who was volunteering services in an Ebola treatment unit in Sierra Leone and was exposed to the virus was admitted to the NIH Clinical Center’s high-level isolation unit.
Meanwhile, congressional appropriators are slowly releasing the requested transfer of funding for the U.S. Ebola response effort in West Africa. Roll Call’s Humberto Sanchez and Niels Lesniewski reported on Friday that the approval of the transfer of the entire $1 billion request is held up pending further details on Pentagon plans to keep soldiers from contracting the illness.
Appropriations and defense committee leaders have released only portions of the request. The partial release of funding, which would have expired at the end of the last week, allows the Pentagon to spend $100 million of the funds while lawmakers await details of how the funds will be used.
Meanwhile, congressional appropriators are slowly releasing the requested transfer of funding for the U.S. Ebola response effort in West Africa. Roll Call’s Humberto Sanchez and Niels Lesniewski reported on Friday that the approval of the transfer of the entire $1 billion request is held up pending further details on Pentagon plans to keep soldiers from contracting the illness.
Appropriations and defense committee leaders have released only portions of the request. The partial release of funding, which would have expired at the end of the last week, allows the Pentagon to spend $100 million of the funds while lawmakers await details of how the funds will be used.
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